"True progress comes not through action, but through awakening."
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"I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation."
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"The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action."
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"Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us."
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"A man is the origin of his action."
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"Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones."
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"Happiness is a sort of action."
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"Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action"
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"Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity."
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"Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action."
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"If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly."
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"The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance."
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"My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic."
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"History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought."
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"All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great."
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"Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope."
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"A good action is preferable to an argument."
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"Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned."
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"My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the constitution in the cases submitted to its action; and especially, where it is to act ultimately and without appeal."
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"Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions."
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