Earnestness quotes
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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.
-- Corita Kent -
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Time and pains will do anything.
-- Frederick William Robertson -
Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!
-- Heinrich Böll -
Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.
-- Marc Webb -
Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
-- Soren Kierkegaard -
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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
-- Victor Hugo