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Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

“The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.”

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Jean de la Bruyere was a French philosopher and moralist, born on August 16, 1645, and died on May 10, 1696. His works have had a profound impact on posterity. more

“No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.”

Men Way Mind Looks Littles Two Action Jobs Purpose Strong Deals Fire Office Hundred Weak Mark Hot Constant Fingers Two Things Iron Cages Squirrels Weak Man Weak Minds Irons In The Fire

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman, the prizes will be for those who most effectively exert their brains, who take deep, earnest and studious counsel of their minds, who stamp themselves as thinkers.”

Mind Action Brain Boys Tomorrow Battle Office Prize Thinker Stamps Earnest Statesmen Harness Studious

Author:B. C. Forbes

“The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.”

Thinking World Action Fingers Pulse

Author:William Ralph Inge

“Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.”

Play Action Enjoy Folly Unnecessary Hustle Work And Play

Author:William Feather

“Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.”

Humans States Action Happiness Tendencies Delightful Indolence Distressing

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.”

Thinking Men Action

Book:Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney

Source: Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney

“Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.”

Humans Use Action Human Beings Waste Degradation

Book:The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society

Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society

“Hurry is the weakness of fools.”

Action Fool Weakness

Author:Baltasar Gracian

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