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Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience
You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something
The materials of action are variable, but the use we make of them should be constant
Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will
Action is only coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious
I never worry about action, but only about inaction
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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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