The best convent for
The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life. Elizabeth Prentiss
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The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life. Elizabeth Prentiss
… our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of … Read more
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack. Edward McKendree Bounds
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
You make adjustments according to the specifics of the character.It’s something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done. It’s not even necessarily vulnerability, always, but it’s an earnestness, a genuine desire to actually do the right thing, but then still make really misguided, stupid decisions along the way. Ed Helms
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one’s life. Friedrich Nietzsche
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come. Frederick William Robertson
Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your … Read more
This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come. Frederick William Robertson
Time and pains will do anything. Frederick William Robertson