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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.
Life and Living
Professor Blackie

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A man must earnestly want.
Desire
William Frederick Book

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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
Sincerity
Benjamin Disraeli

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.
Truth
Max Fuller

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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
Public
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.
Honesty
William James

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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Food and Eating
Samuel Johnson

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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
Age and Aging
Samuel Johnson

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Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
Enthusiasm
Blaise Pascal

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There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
Humor
J. J. Procter

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.
Belief
Terence

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun