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«That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.»
Author: Charlie Chaplin (Comedian, Composer, Film Director, Producer, Writer) | Keywords: cane, caning, clutched, clutches, clutching, derby, derby hat, desperate, earnest, fixing, hat, in earnest, landed, predicament, straightened, straightening, straightens, straighten out, straighten up, tie, very much
«My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.»
Author: Robert E. Lee | Keywords: chief, concern, earnest, humble
«So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong»
Author: Walter Bagehot (Analyst, Economist, Editor) | About: Belief, Judgement | Keywords: believers, earnest, punish, unwise
«Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth»
Author: William McKinley (Politician) | About: Blessings, God, Prayer | Keywords: earnest, graciously, peoples, vouchsafe, vouchsafed, vouchsafes
«Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus; / And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: cast down, earnest, fervent, rejoiced, The Coming, Titus
«Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; / Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: anointed, anoints, earnest, sealed
«Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest counsel»
Author: Bible | About: Friends, Heart, Joy | Keywords: counsel, earnest, incense, incensed, perfume, perfumes, perfuming, pleasantness, springs
«The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: earnest, in earnest, jest, squirrel, squirrels
«Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Dreams, Indecision | Keywords: as if by magic, Begin, boldness, brings, can-do, days, delaying, delays, earnest, genius, indecision, in earnest, lamenting, lost, magic, minute, seize, seize on, seizing, with boldness
«Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.»
Author: Winston Churchill (Author, Orator, Prime Minister) | About: Business, Politics | Keywords: earnest
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