Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. Pascal.
Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them. Bovee.
Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties. Bovee.
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand 45 sure. Browning.
Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, / Sighing through all her work, gave sign of woe / That all was lost. Milton.
Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down. Chapin.
Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. Moore.
Earth hath nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety. Luther.
Earth is here (in Australia) so kind, just tickle 50 her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. Douglas Jerrold.
Earthly pride is like a passing flower, that springs to fall and blossoms but to die. Kirke White.