"The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator."

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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Act,

"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Act, Desire, Man, World

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

William Blake, English Poet

Act, Evening, Night, Sleep

"I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act."

Arthur Miller, American Playwright

Act, Credit, Nation, Will

"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."

bell hooks, American Critic

Act, Ego, Past, Self

"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Act, Living, Meaning

"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."

John Updike, American Novelist

Act, Applause, Glory, World

"Think before you act and act on what you believe."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

Act,

"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."

Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian Writer

Act, Fact, Grief, Man

"If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender."

Brian Eno, British Musician

Act, Emotion, Listening, Surrender

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"Death calls ye to the crowd of common men."

Death

"The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade."

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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

"I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act."

"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."

"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."

"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."

"Think before you act and act on what you believe."

"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."

"If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender."

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"Death calls ye to the crowd of common men."

"The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade."

"There is no armor against fate."

"Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust."

"The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator."