Wren's battles are as eagerly fought as crane's are. [ Proverb ]

The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, than the New Testament. [ Guthrie ]

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others. [ Auerbach ]

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator. [ Greville ]

Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts. [ Zimmermann ]

The herb feeds upon the juice of a good soil, and drinks in the dew of heaven as eagerly, and thrives by it as effectually, as the stalled ox that tastes everything that he eats or drinks. [ South ]

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible, be daily before your eyes, but death chiefly; and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything. [ Epictetus ]

As the health and strength or weakness of our bodies is very much owing to their methods of treating us when we were young, so the soundness or folly of our minds is not less owing to those first tempers and ways of thinking which we eagerly received from the love, tenderness, authority, and constant conversation of our mothers. [ E. Law ]