"Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature."

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Source : Robert South (1727). “Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions”, p.140

Robert South

#Power Quotes #Men Quotes #Drawing Quotes

“Mere words will not do. They must convey the color, charm, and pulse of life. They must have a private twinkle of wit in them that makes a good-natured noise like laughter through the keyhole of the reader's mind.”
“Drumming is not worrying about what you can't do. It's about having fun with what you can do.”
“The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.”
“A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.”
“I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.”
“The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the form of a gene, but the lantern doesn't penetrate more than a couple of hundred feet. We don't know whether we're going to encounter chasms, rock walls or mountain ranges along the way. We don't even know how long the path is.”
“Because this is our life. We met on the road; we grew to know and to love each other on the road. It's where we were meant to be for however long, and it's what we're going to do until it becomes clear that we're meant to do something else.”
“Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind of Man, void of all Uncertainty; and all other Discourses participate more or less of Truth according as their Subjects are more or less capable of Mathematical Demonstration.”

Source : James ELMES, Sir Christopher Wren (1852). “Sir Christopher Wren and his times. With illustrative sketches and anecdotes of the most distinguished personages in the seventeenth century”, p.100

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