"The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still."

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Source : John Webster, Alexander Dyce (1877). “The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes”, p.108

John Webster

#Men Quotes #Soul Quotes #Body Quotes

“With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.”
“I have a policy about fear: It cripples the soul, so you just have to fight it.”
“Science is what scientists do.”
“The hand is where the mind meets the world.”
“That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually.”
“Bullying consists of the least competent most aggressive employee projecting their incompetence on to the least aggressive most competent employee and winning.”
“Now that I am in my forties, she [my mother] tells me I'm beautiful; now that I am in my forties, she sends me presents and we have the long, personal and even remarkably honest phone calls I always wanted so intensely I forbade myself to imagine them. How strange. Perhaps Shaw was correct and if we lived to be several hundred years old, we would finally work it all out. I am deeply grateful. With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.”
“While some sit on the sidelines and fail to offer any practical solutions to address high gas prices now, the House is once again taking action to meet the energy needs of the American people.”

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