A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient SourcesAnna Lydia Ward |
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... ACTION - see Purpose , Speech , Training , Truth . Given the love and the wisdom , life's code of action follows . 25 A. Bronson Alcott : Table Talk . II . Enterprise . Socrates ' Prayer . Action is but coarsened thought , - thought ...
... ACTION - see Purpose , Speech , Training , Truth . Given the love and the wisdom , life's code of action follows . 25 A. Bronson Alcott : Table Talk . II . Enterprise . Socrates ' Prayer . Action is but coarsened thought , - thought ...
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... action to the word , the word to the action . Shakespeare : Hamlet . Act iii . Sc . 2 . 36 Facility of action comes by habit . 37 Timothy Titcomb ( J. G. Holland ) : Gold - Foil . XV . Indolence and Industry . In every scheme involving ...
... action to the word , the word to the action . Shakespeare : Hamlet . Act iii . Sc . 2 . 36 Facility of action comes by habit . 37 Timothy Titcomb ( J. G. Holland ) : Gold - Foil . XV . Indolence and Industry . In every scheme involving ...
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... Action . Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity . To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy . - 104 George S. Hillard : Eulogy on the Life and Services of Daniel Webster ...
... Action . Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity . To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy . - 104 George S. Hillard : Eulogy on the Life and Services of Daniel Webster ...
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... action , to any end , is art . 200 Emerson : Society and Solitude . Art . The highest problem of every art is , by means of appear- ances , to produce the illusion of a loftier reality . 201 Goethe : Truth and Poetry . ( Godwin ...
... action , to any end , is art . 200 Emerson : Society and Solitude . Art . The highest problem of every art is , by means of appear- ances , to produce the illusion of a loftier reality . 201 Goethe : Truth and Poetry . ( Godwin ...
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... action . It is simply the man who in all these modes works from an ideal , works to produce or bring forth in tangible form some conception of use or beauty with which not his memory but his inmost soul is aglow . 262 Henry James ...
... action . It is simply the man who in all these modes works from an ideal , works to produce or bring forth in tangible form some conception of use or beauty with which not his memory but his inmost soul is aglow . 262 Henry James ...
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