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Put his shoulder to the wheel.
Put his shoulder to the wheel.
He is at no end of his actions blest
Whose ends will make greatest and not best.
He is at no end of his actions blest
Whose ends will make greatest and not best.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary read more
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do
with all his might.
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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do
with all his might.
[Lat., Quod est, eo decet uti: et quicquid agas, agere pro
viribus.]
Of every noble action the intent
Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.
Of every noble action the intent
Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.
