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Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.
Charles Spurgeon
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Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.
Corita Kent
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In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.
Carl Jung
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With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions.
Ramakrishna
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Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.
Marc Webb