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"Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all."
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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."
"Taking action provides immediate feedback and an opportunity to review your progress to see if you are on the right track."
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"I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves."
"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."
"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"
"In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience."
"Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress."
"I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance."
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