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Thought is the blossom, language the bud, action the fruit behind it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Topic: Action

Of every noble action the intent Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.

Francis Beaumont Topic: Action

Let's meet and either do or die.

Francis Beaumont Topic: Action

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.

Bible Topic: Action

Go, and do thou likewise.

Bible Topic: Action

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Bible Topic: Action

Iron sharpeth iron.

Bible Topic: Action

That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it, This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundreds soon hit: His high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit.

Robert Browning Topic: Action

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Robert Browning Topic: Action

What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.

Robert Burns Topic: Action

Let us do or die.

Robert Burns Topic: Action

Put his shoulder to the wheel.

Robert Burton Topic: Action

To morrow let us do or die.

Thomas Campbell Topic: Action

Our grandly business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle Topic: Action

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

Thomas Carlyle Topic: Action

He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best.

George Chapman Topic: Action

What one has, one ought to use, and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Cicero Topic: Action

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

Cicero Topic: Action

Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

Sir John Denham Topic: Action

Human beings must have action, and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Sir John Denham Topic: Action

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