Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
From Thomas Carlyle
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
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