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As firmly as a hand holding a stone. Held, however, so firmly, merely so that it can be flung a greater distance. But there is a path even to that distance.
The Zurau Aphorisms (21)
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind
Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act
Acting is happy agony
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience
You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something
The materials of action are variable, but the use we make of them should be constant
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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