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It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with
new.
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with
new.
Of every noble action the intent
Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.
Of every noble action the intent
Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where read more
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, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.
I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.
Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
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Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate,
Nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts, our angles are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
He is at no end of his actions blest
Whose ends will make greatest and not best.
He is at no end of his actions blest
Whose ends will make greatest and not best.
