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Earnest Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.
- 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…
- 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.…
- The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.
- The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself in images. A…
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- 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
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- 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