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Acts Quotes by George Eliot
- It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at…
- But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric…
- Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions…
- And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she…
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- The act of dying is one of the acts of life. — Marcus Aurelius
- Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. — Teresa of Avila
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most… — Philip James Bailey
- A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. — Bernard Baruch
- Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of… — Joseph Addison
- The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he… — Alfred Adler
- He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. — William Blake
- Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve… — John Boehner