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Be content to act, and leave the talking to others
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox
We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all
The secret of getting things done is to act!
Do every act of your life as if it were your last
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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