The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

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That high All-seer which I dallied with Hath turned my feigned prayer on my head, And given in earnest what I begged in jest.

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Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.

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We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.

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Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

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On this subject I do not which to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No No Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.

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I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch--and I will be heard.

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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.

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I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.

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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

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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.

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today. - Barak Obama

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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

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John 5:6:
When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, 'Do you want to get well?'
(NIV)
When Jesus noticed him lying there [helpless], knowing that he had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, Do you want to become well? [Are you really in earnest about getting well?](AMP)
When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
(KJV)

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