#earnest

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

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This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest. ↗

— Henny Youngman

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A man must earnestly want. ↗

— William Frederick Book

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What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. ↗

— Anna Jameson

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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. ↗

— Anna Jameson

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That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history. ↗

— Thomas Howard

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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

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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. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out. ↗

— Helen Fielding

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