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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.
If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it;
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That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it;
This high man, with a great thing to pursue,
Dies ere he knows it.
That low man goes on adding one to one,
His hundreds soon hit:
His high man, aiming at a million,
Misses an unit.
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
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Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate,
Nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts, our angles are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.