"Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether."

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Thomas Carlyle

#Advice Quotes #Acting Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, and which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death?”
“People need all the good memories they can keep with them in this world; they're a sort of steering apparatus in a life-boat ...”

Source : Marah Ellis Ryan (1891). “Told in the Hills”, p.146, Library of Alexandria
“I never hid out. I was never big enough a star.”
“If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.”
“But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star.”
“No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“A man that does not love praise is not a full man.”
“You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to the verge of war. Of course we were brought to the verge of war. The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art... If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. We've had to look it square in the face... We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face. We took strong action.”

Source : In Life 16 Jan. 1956

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