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How to use the word earnestness in a Sentence?

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Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.

– Louisa May Alcott

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6 years ago

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.

– Oswald Chambers

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10 years ago

By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm.

– The Dhammapada

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12 years ago

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.

– Annie Dillard, _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_

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13 years ago

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

– Confucius, The Confucian Analects

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13 years ago

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

– Confucius

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13 years ago

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

– Confucius

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14 years ago

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