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Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. -- Blaise Pascal
People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption. -- Mindy Kaling
Earnestness alone makes life eternity. -- Thomas Carlyle
Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous. -- Corita Kent
Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality. -- Marc Webb
Earnestness is the salt of eloquence. -- Victor Hugo
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Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary. -- Charles Spurgeon
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. -- Sarojini Naidu
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. -- Samuel Johnson
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. -- Confucius
Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master. -- Oswald Chambers
Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Earnestness is the most important thing. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason -- Blaise Pascal
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain. -- William James
Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right. -- Sage Francis
Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface. -- Randy Pausch
Time and pains will do anything. -- Frederick William Robertson
Have an earnestness for death and you will have life. -- Abu Bakr
This world is given as the prize for the man in earnest. -- Frederick William Robertson
The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life. -- Theodore Parker
I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness. -- Matt Lauria
My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and, through life and death, to force my way unto Thee. -- Christian Scriver
That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history. -- Thomas Howard
Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on. -- Miranda Raison
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul. -- Hannah More
Up, then, with speed, and work; Fling ease and self away-- This is no time for thee to sleep-- Up, watch, and work, and pray! -- Horatius Bonar
In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached. -- John Strachan
For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart. -- Horace Mann
I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness. -- Ana Gasteyer
My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me. -- John Woolman
A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools. -- John Sterling
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. -- Annie Dillard
This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia. -- Benjamin Harrison
Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots. -- Vidya Balan
Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. No soul-moving picture was ever painted that had not in it depth of shadow. -- Peter Bayne
The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us. -- Philip Neri
Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness! -- Heinrich BÃ¶ll
Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness. -- Hannah More
Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness. -- Charles Dickens
A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule. -- D. H. Lawrence
With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions. -- Ramakrishna
Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite -- Gillian Flynn
Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity. -- Sharon Salzberg
In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into. -- Carl Jung
Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it. -- Jeffrey Zaslow
God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness. -- Frederick William Robertson
Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest. -- Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore. -- Oscar Wilde
BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given. -- Ambrose Bierce
Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life. -- William Feather
Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things. -- James Freeman Clarke
The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them. -- Arthur W. Pink
If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly. -- Frederick Lenz
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others. -- Nicholas Sparks
Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness. -- Charles Darwin
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. -- Confucius
The age can be impressed. Anything will be accepted by men if you will but preach it with tremendous enthusiasm, emotion, persuasionnergy and living earnestness. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors. -- William Wilberforce
Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life. -- Baba Hari Dass
There`s a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian. -- Rachel Griffiths
[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities of critical judgment, earnestness and responsibility. -- Albert Einstein
Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer. -- John Calvin
We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves. -- Charles Colson
You're constantly, in human culture, trying to balance between uplifting, heartfelt, sincere, earnestness that empowers and enlightens people, and the sarcastic cynicism that comes from just people's acquired bitterness over experiences. -- Seth Green
Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion. -- Louisa May Alcott
Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in captivity, are now pleading our cause with earnestness and zeal. -- Richard Allen
I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever. -- Jarvis Cocker
The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life. -- Elizabeth Prentiss
I do not say the mind gets informed by action, ? bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties. -- William Mountford
[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach. -- Madame de Stael
Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range. -- Henry David Thoreau

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