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Action Quotes by William Hazlitt
- First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions…
- A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.
- Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive…
- A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every…
- You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
- Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
- We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations…
- We must be doing something to be happy.
- Without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action.
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- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
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- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
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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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