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"When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that."
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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."
"Do it or not, but do."
"I'm good at doing things I'm not supposed to, she said, then kicked the door open."
"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
"Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself."
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"In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts."
"The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs."
"To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
"This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation."
"The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery."
"To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour."
"He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart."
"A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions."
"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."
"If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest."
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