eagerness

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Tartness; sourness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good. Samuel Johnson

Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Samuel Johnson

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. William Godwin

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me. Zane Grey

I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something beneath their new pride in their race. It is as if they wanted to put it behind them as something to be ashamed of... Paul Robeson

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