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• Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner. (Joseph Addison) [courage/courage/acts]
• Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts. () [words/acts]
• Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. (William Blake) [delight/desires/acts]
• For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts. (Bertolt Brecht) [facts/mankind/acts]
• Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. (Thomas Carlyle) [acts]
• Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. (Pablo Casals) [acts/needs/courage/courage]
• Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine. (Marcus Cicero) [acts]
• The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. ( Confucius) [acts/action]
• Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions. (Benjamin Disraeli) [acts]
• Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor. (Benjamin Disraeli) [life/acts]
• It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. (Benjamin Disraeli) [revolution/acts/imagination]
• But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts. (Albert Einstein) [acts]
• The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. (George Eliot) [acts/life/rest]
• 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 the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness -- calling their denial knowledge. (George Eliot) [acts/joy/men/women]
• That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [character/acts/genius]
• The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value (Irving Fisher) [interest/acts]
• It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. (Anatole France) [acts//people]
• The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen. (William Hazlitt) [genius/acts/power]
• Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. (William Hazlitt) [thoughts/acts]
• Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. (Martin Heidegger) [acts/master/language/language]
• To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time. (Katharine Hepburn) [character/acts/time]
• Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them. () [acts/more/eyes/god]
• Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds. (Victor Hugo) [acts]
• If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today. (Myriam Miedzian) [human/age/acts]
• In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor. (Henry Miller) [acts]
• The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. (Henry Miller) [action/acts/difference]
• Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul. (John Milton) [acts/words/love/mind]
• The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. (Thomas Moore) [acts/day/housing/more]
• Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself. (Jeanne Moreau) [time/acts]
• To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto. (Robert Louis Stevenson) [/acts/imagination]
• Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us. (Henry David Thoreau) [silence/acts/hope-disappointment/painter]

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