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Earnest Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from…
- 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…
- The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.
- We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of…
- The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
- We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be…
- I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from…
- I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from…
More Earnest Quotes
- So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells… — Walter Bagehot
- Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? — Dave Barry
- It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest. — Chuck Berry
- The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love. — Kim Cattrall
- That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening… — Charlie Chaplin
- Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. — Winston Churchill
- Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind… — Jean Anouilh
- There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent.… — Edward McKendree Bounds
- Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy… — W. E. B. Du Bois
- If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more… — John Lancaster Spalding
- Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are so, how… — Charles Spurgeon