Quotes with earnestness

  • 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.

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  • Samuel Johnson A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Blaise Pascal Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Oswald Chambers Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Barry Cornwall Her voice is soft; not shrill and like the lark's, but tenderer, graver, almost hoarse at times! As though the earnestness of love prevailed and quelled all shriller music.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Annie Dillard 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
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Benjamin Harrison This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.
    Public papers and addresses of Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third President of the United States, March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Confucius To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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