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Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest. — Walter Savage Landor
Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own… — George Santayana
All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the… — Charles Caleb Colton
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt. — Jonathan Swift
It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to… — Elbert Hubbard
When you hand someone a camera, why do they act like you just asked them to dissemble a bomb? They take it and they're like,… — Dane Cook
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. — Charles Caleb Colton
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit… — Florence Nightingale
The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which… — Malcolm X
We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of the several States.… — Abraham Lincoln
I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance… — Thomas Jefferson
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his… — Thomas Jefferson
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and… — Joseph Addison
The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act… — Thomas Jefferson
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians.… — Louis Kronenberger
It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object. — Thomas Paine
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel… — Thomas Aquinas
The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels. — Mortimer Adler

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