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Action Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to…
- In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is…
- The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to…
- He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and…
- The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication,…
- Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to…
- They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions…
- To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions…
- Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied…
- Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
- So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
- Every error in human conduct must arise from ignorance in ourselves, either perpetual or temporary; and happen either because we do not know what is…
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- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
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- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius