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Action
«Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.»
«To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it»
Author: Emanuel Swedenborg
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Action
| Keywords:
do it, good and, in reality, opportunity, possible, reality
«To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it,»
Author: Horace Walpole
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Action,
Common sense,
Happiness,
Philosophy,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
bless, duties, respectfully, submit
«To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Action,
Living
| Keywords:
breathe, faculties, organs, parts, senses, sense organs
«Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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Action,
Performance,
Virtue
| Keywords:
shown
«Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Action,
Virtue
| Keywords:
nonperformance, performance, shown
«To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Action,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
cheap, commonplace, commonplaces, compared, confer, conferring, confer with, pleasures, say something, tame, tamer, tames, tamest, taming, trivial