Time and pains will do anything.

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

Earnestness makes British people gag.

Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!

Earnestness is the most important thing.

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions.

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be.

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

I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.

Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.

I think the earnestness of what we're saying and what other bands like us are totally saying - or other queer bands - is 'We exist.'

That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached.

For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies.

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

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.

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.

Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.

My earnestness at the injustices I witnessed when I was writing 'Random Family' may have been my gravest reportorial offense during the early years of reporting. When I discuss the book with students, they often ask me how I could 'stand by' in the face of so much suffering; the egregiousness wasn't my powerlessness but my surprise.

We made our entrance into Paris. As for honors, we received all that we could possibly imagine; but they, though very well in their way, were not what touched me most. What was really affecting was the tenderness and earnestness of the poor people, who, in spite of the taxes with which they are overwhelmed, were transported with joy at seeing us.

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