Earnest Quotes - Page 20

• In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street poolroom over Longley's Lunch. And there were the earnest young Irishmen who fought their way up from the Grand Avenue saloonkeeper backgrounds of their fathers, went through Yale Law School, and have now found high place by the preferment of local politics or in the teaching profession.

  James T. Farrell

  Growing Up, Father, Book

  JAMES T. FARRELL (1938). “STUDS LONIGAN”

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• The hope of all earnest souls must be realized.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Hope, Soul

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1854). “Literary recreations and miscellanies”, p.368

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• The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.

  Ellen G. White

  Special, Desire, Warfare

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• No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.

  Charles Kingsley

  Simple, Plagiarism, Thinker

  Charles Kingsley (1859). “Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time: With Other Papers”, p.366

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• Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.

  Phillips Brooks

  Scripture, Argument, Conviction

  Phillips Brooks (1964). “On Preaching”

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• What earnest worker, with hand and brain for the benefit of his fellowmen, could desire a more pleasing recognition of his usefulness than the monument of a tree, ever growing, ever blooming, and ever bearing wholesome fruit?

  Washington Irving

  Hands, Tree, Brain

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• He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be art, the object of children's books is to whip the little rascals into shape.

  Katherine Paterson

  Art, Children, Book

  Katherine Paterson (2011). “Read for Your Life #18”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Men, World, He Man

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 205, 1895.

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• Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and pains will do anything. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Pain, Lying, Passion

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.42

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• Let a man begin in earnest with "I ought," and he will end, by God's grace, if he persevere, with "I will." Let him force himself to abound in all small offices of kindliness, attention, affectionateness, and all these for God's sake. By and by he will feel them become the habit of his soul.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Men, Office, Grace

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 199, 1895.

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• I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and your amusements and recreations are only to help you along in that work.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Appreciation, Dancing, Wish

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1887). “Live Coals”

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• The new year on which we are about to enter is unopened, and we know not what shall befall us; but if we follow Christ we need have no fear. So let us leave the old year with gratitude to God for its mercies, and with penitence for its failures and sins; and let us enter the new year with earnest resolve in Christ's name to make it the holiest and most beautiful year we have ever lived.

  J.R. Miller

  Beautiful, New Year, Gratitude

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• Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

  Herman Melville

  Passive Resistance, Persons, Resistance

  1853 'Bartleby the Scrivener', in Putnam'sMonthly Magazine, Nov-Dec.

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• Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest - the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Country, Color, Best Effort

  Inaugural Address, en.wikisource.org. March 05, 1877.

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• I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible. I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary. No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible, and no uneducated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Bible, College, Men

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• If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so seriously.

  Thomas Nagel

  Real, Goal, Ridiculous

  Thomas Nagel (1987). “What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy”, p.82, Oxford University Press

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• If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he restrains himself, and lives according to law,then his glory will increase.

  Max Muller

  Law, Deeds, Glory

  F. Max Muller (2000). “Wisdom of the Buddha: The Unabridged Dhammapada”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

  John Milton

  Stronger, Great Things

  John Milton (1829). “Paradise Lost: Paradise Regained”

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• What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

  Virginia Woolf

  Taken, Humor, History

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• O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Song, Brave, Soul

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.206

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• If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

  Plautus

  Jest, Turns, Fairs

  "Amphitruo". III. 2. 39,

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• The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

  Annie Dillard

  Made, Jest, Solemn

  ANNIE DILLARD (1974). “PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK”

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• Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mistake, Sometimes, Nonsense

  Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.184

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• My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.

  Janet Reno

  America, Effort, Community

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• They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Simple, Sight, People

  Hueffer, Ford Madox (2014). “Ancient Lights And Certain New Reflections Being The Memories Of A Young Man”, p.158, Read Books Ltd

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