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The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation. — Tran ?uc Luong
Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who… — Richard Francis Burton
The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman, the prizes will… — B. C. Forbes
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy — Bertrand Russell
It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a… — Marie Curie
Speak not injurious words, neither in jest nor earnest. Scoff at none though they give occasion. — George Washington
When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of… — Charlie Brooker
Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive. — Charles R. Swindoll
Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God. — John Knox
The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct. — Confucius
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to… — Barbara Kingsolver
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… — Frederick William Robertson
I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards. — C.S. Lewis
Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and… — Annie Dillard
Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet… — Frederick Douglass
Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be cats although he… — John Steinbeck
In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles of… — Noah Webster
A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by one impulse, and… — Thomas Nelson Page
And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in good Earnest; and… — Edmund Burke
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. . . .… — Confucius
I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I… — Henry David Thoreau
A pair of hands clasped in earnest prayer is the best means we have this side of heaven to hang onto Jesus for dear life. — Beth Moore
A child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet… — Caroline Norton

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