Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
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Let us do or die.
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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?
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You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as we would like them to. The reason for this is not only the loving wisdom of God, but also the fact that our acts have to fit into a great complex pattern that we cannot possibly understand. I have learned over the years that Providence is always a whole lot wiser than any of us, and that there are always not only good reasons, but the very best reasons for the delays and blocks that often seem to us so frustrating and absurd.
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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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What keeps me going is goals.
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.
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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
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The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
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Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.
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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.
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As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
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Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.
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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
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We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
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We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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