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ACTION For us is the life of action , of strenuous performance of duty ; let us live in harness , striving mightily ; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out . THEODORE ROOSEVELT I multiplied myself by my activity .
ACTION For us is the life of action , of strenuous performance of duty ; let us live in harness , striving mightily ; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out . THEODORE ROOSEVELT I multiplied myself by my activity .
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CHINESE PROVERB Act nothing in furious passion . It's putting to sea ANIMALS I think I cold turn and live with animals. in a storm . THOMAS FULLER satisfaction but wonder and awe . Its great liberation is 13 Anger.
CHINESE PROVERB Act nothing in furious passion . It's putting to sea ANIMALS I think I cold turn and live with animals. in a storm . THOMAS FULLER satisfaction but wonder and awe . Its great liberation is 13 Anger.
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ANIMALS I think I cold turn and live with animals ; they are so placid and self - contained . I stand and look at them long and long . They do not sweat and whine about their condition . They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for ...
ANIMALS I think I cold turn and live with animals ; they are so placid and self - contained . I stand and look at them long and long . They do not sweat and whine about their condition . They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for ...
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ability achievement action ALBERT ANONYMOUS beauty beginning believe BENJAMIN better body CHARLES choice comes courage creative critics darkness destiny EDWARD EINSTEIN essential evil experience fail failure feel Forgiving FRANKLIN FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT GEORGE give GOETHE grow happiness hear heart HENRY DAVID THOREAU HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW higher hope human ideas JOHN JOSEPH keep kindness known lasting leave lies light listen live look man's mankind MARCUS AURELIUS matter means mind move nature never noble ourselves pain peace person plant Politics PROVERB RALPH WALDO EMERSON reach religion ROBERT ROOSEVELT rooted SAYING seek short simple Simplicity single solitude sorrow soul spiritual step success suffering Tact talents task THEODORE things THOMAS thousand true wisdom wise write wrong
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Page 59 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 95 - DIVINE MASTER, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Page 4 - It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood...
Page 57 - I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Page 77 - On that best portion of a good man's life, — His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
Page 34 - You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Page 48 - A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Page 127 - A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.