Earnestness Quote by Henry David Thoreau
“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.”
![“[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.” quote by Madame de Stael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/153/madame-de-stael-2069_believe_ridicule-laughs-at-all-those-who-see-the_131952.jpg)
