Words and deeds are quite indifferent modes of the divine energy. Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Besides why should we be cowed by the name of Action? “Tis a trick of the senses,” – no more. We know that the ancestor of every action is a thought. To think is to act.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little off course and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up […]
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Sad spectacle that man should live and be fed that he may fill a paragraph in the newspaper for his wonderful age, as we record the weight and girth of the Big Ox and Mammoth Girl. We don’t count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.
Thought is the seed of action.
I like people who can do things. When Edward and I struggled in vain to drag our big calf into the barn, the Irish girl put her finger into the calf’s mouth, and led her in directly.
