"I do not say the mind gets informed……" — William Mountford
"I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties."
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William Mountford
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8 Quotes by William Mountford
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Duty reaches down the ages in its effects, and into eternity; and when the man goes about it resolutely, it…
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Do we not hear voices, gentle and great, and some of them like the voices of departed friends,— do we…
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... science and speculation pass into mystery at last.
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To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows…
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With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope, and at the end of it, death…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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