I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.
Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.
Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility, and the results will exceed anything he may have hoped in his leaner and weaker days.
To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.
Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.
I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.
At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.
It would be terribly boring to be earnest.
The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.
I have found that the more I reflect philosophically on the attributes of God the more overwhelmed I become at his greatness and the more excited I become about Bible doctrine. Whereas easy appeals to mystery prematurely shut off reflection about God, rigorous and earnest effort to understand him is richly rewarded with deeper appreciation of who he is, more confidence in his reality and care, and a more intelligent and profound worship of his person.
You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
You take yourself to be limited, but you are not. Discover this. Stay silent and attentive. Be earnest about it. Just be aware of your being here and now. Reality will find you.
The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.