#earnest

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

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It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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It's one thing to earnestly try but fail to bring the two sides together. Though Democrats will deny it, that was the case with George W. Bush. ↗

— David Limbaugh

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You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

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A man must earnestly want. ↗

— William Frederick Book

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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. ↗

— Anna Jameson

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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. ↗

— Anna Jameson

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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It would be terribly boring to be earnest. ↗

— Adrien Brody

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