Action and blood now get the ...

Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
 Amos Bronson Alcott

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
 Amos Bronson Alcott
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
 Amos Bronson Alcott
Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
 Amos Bronson Alcott
Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.
 Amos Bronson Alcott
Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
 Amos Bronson Alcott