The New Dictionary of ThoughtsA cyclopedia of quotations from the best authors of the world, both ancient and modern, alphabetically arranged by subjects. |
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... Action Actors Address Admiration Adversity Advice Affectation Affection Affliction Age Agitation Agnosticism Agrarianism Agriculture Aims Alchemy Allegories Ambassador Ambition America Amiability Amusements Analogy Anarchy Ancestry ...
... Action Actors Address Admiration Adversity Advice Affectation Affection Affliction Age Agitation Agnosticism Agrarianism Agriculture Aims Alchemy Allegories Ambassador Ambition America Amiability Amusements Analogy Anarchy Ancestry ...
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... Action. Heaven never helps the man who will not act.—Sophocles. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.—Disraeli. Remember you have not a sinew whose law of strength ... actions of Acquirement Action.
... Action. Heaven never helps the man who will not act.—Sophocles. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.—Disraeli. Remember you have not a sinew whose law of strength ... actions of Acquirement Action.
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... action, and every power is intended for action; human happiness, therefore, can only be complete as all the powers have their full and legitimate play.—Thomas. Great actions, the lustre of which dazzles us, are represented by ...
... action, and every power is intended for action; human happiness, therefore, can only be complete as all the powers have their full and legitimate play.—Thomas. Great actions, the lustre of which dazzles us, are represented by ...
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... action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.—Calderon. Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.—Colton. Existence was given us for action ...
... action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.—Calderon. Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.—Colton. Existence was given us for action ...
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... action that give a true value and commendation to virtue.—Cicero. Be great in act, as you have been in thought.—Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action.—Shakespeare. We must be doing something to be happy.—Action is no ...
... action that give a true value and commendation to virtue.—Cicero. Be great in act, as you have been in thought.—Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action.—Shakespeare. We must be doing something to be happy.—Action is no ...
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action Apothegms Aristotle atheism beauty become Beecher believe better Bible blessing body Chapin character Christ Christian Cicero Colton conscience danger death deeds desire devil divine doth duty earth Edwards Eliot enemy eternal everything evil faith fear feel flowers folly fool genius George Eliot give glory God’s grace greatest grow habit happiness hath heart heaven holy honor hope human idle ignorance Jeremy Taylor Joshua Reynolds kind knowledge labor learning liberty light live look man’s mankind marriage men’s mind moral nature never noble one’s opinion ourselves passions perfect person philosophy pleasure Plutarch principles Proverb Publius Syrus reason religion rich Rochefoucauld sense Shakespeare Simmons sorrow soul speak spirit temper thee Theodore Parker things thou thought today true truth vice virtue Voltaire Washington Allston weak wisdom wise word