Earnest Quotes - Page 12

• All over America there is to be found a large and growing class of earnest, intelligent, progressive colored women . . . many of them warped and cramped for lack of opportunity, not only to do more but to be more.

  Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

  Intelligent, Opportunity, Class

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• I keep a mountain anchored off eastward a little way, which I ascend in my dreams both awake and asleep. Its broad base spreads over a village or two, which does not know it; neither does it know them, nor do I when I ascend it. I can see its general outline as plainly now in my mind as that of Wachusett. I do not invent in the least, but state exactly what I see. I find that I go up it when I am light-footed and earnest. It ever smokes like an altar with its sacrifice. I am not aware that a single villager frequents it or knows of it. I keep this mountain to ride instead of a horse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Horse, Knowledge

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• His [the President's] earnest desire is, that you may perpetuated and preserved as a nation; and this he believes can only be doneand secured by your consent to remove to a country beyond the Mississippi.... Where you are, it is not possible you can live contented and happy.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Believe, Desire

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• ... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.

  Gertrude Stein

  Real, Different, Use

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.52, Random House

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• That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Beautiful, Order

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 3. Of the imaginative and theoretic faculties. 4th ed”, p.22

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• In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because it is symmetrical and fair. Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.118, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I would suggest two approaches to begin the leadership journey in earnest. First would be to ask oneself, in every interaction with others over the course of a single day: How can you best serve this person? Another approach would be to attempt, over the course of a single day, to reframe your declarative statements into questions. The thoughtful use of questions can be transformational. In my experience, most people find these exercises more challenging - and more rewarding - than they would have imagined.

  James M Strock

  Exercise, Thoughtful, Journey

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• Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  War, Past, Ideas

  "Daily News", February 18, 1905.

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• A husband and wife should resolve never to wrangle with each other; never to bandy words or indulge in the least ill-humour. Never! I say; NEVER. Wrangling, even in jest, and putting on an air of ill-humour merely to tease, becomes earnest by practice.

  Timothy Shay Arthur

  Husband, Air, Practice

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• We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Eye, Exercise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2741, Delphi Classics

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• Women are certainly more happy in this than we men: their employments occupy a smaller portion of their thoughts, and the earnest longing of the heart, the beautiful inner life of the fancy, always commands the greater part.

  Friedrich Schleiermacher

  Beautiful, Work, Heart

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• My profession brought me in contact with various minds. Earnest, serious discussion on the condition of woman enlivened my business room; failures of banks, no dividends from railroads, defalcations of all kinds, public and private, widows and orphans and unmarried women beggared by the dishonesty, or the mismanagement of men, were fruitful sources of conversation; confidence in man as a protector was evidently losing ground, and women were beginning to see that they must protect themselves.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Business, Men, Widows And Orphans

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• For here we are so blind and foolish that we never seek God until he, of his goodness, shows himself to us. It is when we do see something of him by his grace that we are stirred by that same grace to seek him, and with earnest longing to see still more of his blessedness. So I saw him and sought him; I had him and wanted him. It seems to me that this is and should be an experience common to us all.

  Julian of Norwich

  Grace, Saws, Common

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• David McKnight gives us the tools to work out where we stand - and what unites rather than divides us - as the struggle to defend our democracy begins in earnest

  Margo Kingston

  Struggle, Giving, Work Out

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• I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my life, but they're twirling around me at the time.

  Ben Gibbard

  Twirling

  "Q&A: Death Cab for Cutie Unpack Chris Walla’s Departure and New Album ‘Kintsugi’". Interview with Kyle McGovern, www.spin.com. April 3, 2015.

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• My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Heart, Longing

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “Volume of prefaces”

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• There can be - there ought to be - no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if not wickedness: to gossip about it is, in the first instance, intrusive, unkind, or dangerous; in the second, simply silly.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Silly, Gossip, Wickedness

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 8), 1858.

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• The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands far more chance of rising to a position affording him opportunity to exercise his organizing abilities than the fellow who dawdles along without chart or compass, without plan or purpose, without self-improvement and self-discipline.

  B. C. Forbes

  Reading, Exercise, Opportunity

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• To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Impress

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• Life is earnest, art is gay.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Gay, Life Is

  "Wallenstein" by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (Prologue), 1798.

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• The men of sense, the idols of the shallow, are very inferior to the men of passions. It is the strong passions which, rescuing us from sloth, impart to us that continuous and earnest attention necessary to great intellectual efforts.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Strong, Passion, Men

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• Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Understanding, Honest

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.393, Rajpal & Sons

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• Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cherished designs will bear testimony to the fact that much which he meant to convey has never been guessed at in any review of his work; and many a delicate beauty of thought, on which he principally valued himself, remains, like the statue of Isis, an image of truth from which no hand lifts the veil.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Isis, Hands

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• Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Thinking, Errors

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• A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction.

  J. G. Holland

  Heart, Expression, Spheres

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 47, 1895.

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