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Action has magic, grace and power in it.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
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Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny
Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.
Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.
He who moves not forward, goes backward.
Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.
There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.
The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.
What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate.
Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.
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