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Letter "E" » earnest
«Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.»
Author: Jean Anouilh
(Dramatist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
boldness, completed, earnest, engage, heated, in earnest
«Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.»
Author: Susan B. Anthony
| Keywords:
advocates, avow, avowed, bring about, bring to bear, casting, cautious, despised, earnest, estimation, estimations, in earnest, privately, publicly, reform, Social reform, standards, sympathies
«A wild, wick slip she was - but, she had the bonniest eye and sweetest smile, and lightest foot in the parish: and, after all, I believe she meant no harm; for when once she made you cry in good earnest, it seldom happened that she would not keep you company, and oblige you to be quiet that you might comfort her.»
«All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
conspire, conspires, Conspiring, deep sea, earnest, intrepid, slavish, treacherous, wildest
«Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been , what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal , needs to be protected from people.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
cameras, ceased, earnest, ecology, endangered, metamorphoses, protected, safari, tamed
«For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, / According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.»
«For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness,
Morality
| Keywords:
custom, decried, decry, degraded, earnest, moralist, moralists, Two thousand, unworthy
«Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Citizenship,
God,
Government
| Keywords:
Almighty, Almighty God, cultivate, earnest, government of the United, government of the United States, Hearts of, incline, obedience, protection, subordination, the Holy Spirit, United States government, wilt
«But whoever disputes with you in this matter after what has come to you of knowledge, then say: Come let us call our sons and your sons and our women and your women and our near people and your near people, then let us be earnest in prayer, and pray»
«Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.»
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