#earnest

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

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This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest. ↗

— Henny Youngman

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A man must earnestly want. ↗

— William Frederick Book

#man #must #want

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

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When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy. ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

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I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#hard #know #right #wishes

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 were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#attentions #daily #earnest #falling #fit

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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