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  • 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.

    Book   Writing   Long  
    Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith (1985). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin”, p.338, Cambridge University Press
  • Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface.

    Trying   Hips   Surface  
    Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books
  • The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very similar to what the glam-rockers, particularly Bowie and Bryan Ferry, were attacking in the earnestness of '60s culture. Trying to shock, but with wit, cleverness, and homosexuality.

    Ideas   Trying   Culture  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.

  • The way of awakening and freedom requires that we ask ourselves, with all of the earnestness, honesty, and humility at our command, just this one fundamental question: 'Am I willing to live this moment with as much attention and affection as possible, or am I going to do something else?'

    Life   Honesty   Humility  
  • There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

    Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4820, Delphi Classics
  • Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

    Pain   Mean   Energy  
    Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.533, Simon and Schuster
  • This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

    Men   World   He Man  
    Frederick William Robertson (1857). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series”, p.52
  • BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

    Belief   Given   Asks  
    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.19, 谷月社
  • 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.

    Art   Strong   Profound  
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.76
  • Enthusiasm is the parent of enterprise. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, someone consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in their powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of their endeavors.

    "Keys to Success".
  • 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.

    Hands   White   People  
    Richard Allen (1880). “The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen: To which is Annexed, the Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America : Containing a Narrative of the Yellow Fever in the Year of Our Lord 1793 : with an Address to the People of Color in the United States”
  • 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.

    Home   Fighting   Reality  
    Elizabeth Prentiss (1871). “Stepping Heavenward. By the author of 'The flower of the family'.”, p.235
  • Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

    Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”
  • People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

    Media   People   Faces  
  • If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?

    Salvation   Ifs  
  • Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

  • Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

  • It is not the mouth that is the main thing to be looked at in prayer, but whether the heart is so full of affection and earnestness in prayer with God, that it is impossible to express their sense and desire; for then a man desires indeed, when his desires are so strong, many, and mighty, that all the words, tears, and groans that can come from the heart, cannot utter them.

    Strong   Prayer   Heart  
    John Bunyan, Henry Stebbing (1859). “The entire works of John Bunyan”, p.270
  • Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

    FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Apr 30, 2013
  • ... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to institutions for boys, as they have done in the past.

    Sex   Past   Boys  
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2016). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)”, p.232, BIG BYTE BOOKS
  • 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 (2013). “journal”, p.91, Lulu.com
  • I admired the earnestness of these people, many of whom had joined Greenpeace and marched for noble things in their youth. But I didn’t share their hatred of the establishment. After all, the establishment had given me so many of my favorite things: Nick at Nite, the New York Knicks, Stephen King, Taco Bell, Green Day. The list went on and on.

    Kings   New York   People  
    "Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview With Simon Rich". Interview with Maureen Miller, therumpus.net. June 9, 2010.
  • 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.

    Heart   Wine   Clear Head  
  • Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the rounds of that ladder must be made of stuff to stand wear and tear; and there is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

    Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4820, Delphi Classics
  • To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • How do you go about finding anything? By keeping your mind and heart on it. Interest there must be and steady remembrance. To remember what needs to be remembered is the secret of success. You come to it through earnestness

  • We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

    Prayer   Ought   Lays  
    C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Oh! yes, (the prayer meeting) is the place to meet with the Holy Ghost, and this is the way to get His mighty power. If we would have Him, we must meet in greater numbers; we must pray with greater fervency, we must watch with greater earnestness, and believe with firmer steadfastness. The prayer meeting...is the appointed place for the reception of power.

  • A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides through an interpreter, quite in the described mode,--the Indians, as usual, having the advantage in point of truth and earnestness, and therefore of eloquence. The most prominent chief was named Little Crow. They were quite dissatisfied with the white man's treatment of them, and probably have reason to be so.

    Henry David Thoreau (1974). “The correspondence of Henry David Thoreau”, Greenwood Pub Group
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