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“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”

Pain Hope Literature Despair Painful Live Life Eagerness Hope And Despair Middlemarch

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants.”

Inspirational Life Is Fun Giants Competing Underdog Eagerness Fun Life

Author:Ross Perot

“Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden, and softly, and exclaiming of their dearness, fill your arms with the white and pink flowers, with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling, their eagerness to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are nothing, forever?”

Source: New and Selected Poems, Volume One

“Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.”

Wealth Sin Pleasure Honor Prosperity Pursuit Enthusiasm Eagerness Pursuit Of Wealth

Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority.”

Source: Essays, Literary, Moral, and Political

“All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.”

World Heart Self Light Evil Results Secret Sun Pure Faults Reform Eagerness

Book:Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux

Source: Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux

“Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.”

People Fall Numbers Meetings Crowds Proportion Eagerness

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author