What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action
WENDELL PHILLIPS The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.
WENDELL PHILLIPS The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserve...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON Phillips said. ''I thought anything brought before the town would be binding.
DIANE PHILLIPS A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can re...
BENJAMIN L. HOOKS A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can rea...
BENJAMIN HOOKS A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can rea...
BENJAMIN L. HOOKS Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist t...
EDMUND MORGAN The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER There are no ugly things, only ugly thoughts.
MARTY RUBIN The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.
DOUG HORTON Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.
DOUGLAS HORTON She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the go...
PASCALE PETIT Wendell understands it would not be a good idea to change this technological culture, but he's learn...
JAYE MORENCY Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
G. M. TREVELYAN When Lawrence Phillips was in a boys home growing up, I truly believe he was on the right track, ......
KATHY REDMOND The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not direc...
MAYA ANGELOU When you're a kid, they tell you it's all "Grow up, Get a job. Get married. Get a house, Have a kid....
~DOCTOR WHO The world is more than the sum of its suffering.
DEEPAK CHOPRA Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is mor...
B.K.S. IYENGAR Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY The purpose of man is in action not thought.
THOMAS CARLYLE You cannot become the best dancer by sitting and wishing. Take action, start dancing
SOTONYE ANGA You never gave any of us an inch, ever, for what you thought was right,
JAMES DEAN Believe me, she's in heaven, ... People thought she was homeless, but she gave everything to the chu...
JANET WRIGHT It's not a matter of which is the appropriate definition to be applied, ... but what it (i.e. the ac...
ADRIAN ANDERSON What is fictitious in a novel is not so much the story but the method by which thought develops into...
EMILE-AUGUSTE CHARTIER The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.
R.J. SCOTT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the
Gospel is good fare."
MATTHEW (MATHEW) HENRY I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTI...
DEREK LANDY Do you think none shall be saved but puritans(89)?
RICHARD BAXTER Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
...
No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overst...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one ...
DONALD DAVIDSON We gave them what we thought they wanted.
LANNY DAVIS Revolution is but thought carried into action.
EMMA GOLDMAN And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm...
BIRCH BAYH I said the heck with it, I'm going to surrender. And I gave in. The game got me. I was trying so har...
JESPER PARNEVIK If we change our thoughts from 'it's too late' to, 'there's still hope', we might see some change in...
KELLIE ELMORE The ego was just a thought till you turn it into an action...
PHILIP T. M. A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an
action which does not proceed f...
GEORGES BERNANOS A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed f...
GEORGES BERNANOS A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed f...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action
which does not proceed f...
GEORGES BERNANOS I think America and the world wants us to show the outrage not by rhetoric, but by taking action,
CHARLES RANGEL Because I must do something while I still can. Each soul is still incalculably precious.
MICHEL FABER History is made so that we can learn from it but like all lessons in life, if they are not learned w...
GARY F EVANS... World will change for betterment only when HEART of majority of individuals grows in size to accomod...
ANUJ SOMANY We talk about wanting to change the world, and we often picture this as a lofty goal reached only by...
ROSIE BLYTHE I have no complaints, except for the world.
BARBARA KRUGER The world is inviolable: it has no beginning and no end. Those who seek to change it will be changed...
MALINDA LO There's no denying it now. I'm in the world. And, too, the world is in me.
NICOLA YOON Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.
MARK TWAIN The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it.
MUTANT ENEMY, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Life's irony;Fear the world for it is a dangerous place,for they are only waiting for you to arrive,...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Almost all people talk vociferously and publicly about the change until their financial position cha...
ANUJ SOMANY Every person who changed the world did it by doing something everyone around them was unwilling to d...
TIFFANY L. JACKSON The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of thems...
P.D. JAMES We need __most to understand nature.
CLINTON HILL .........DEFENDER OF THE PLANET AND A NATURE LOVER. The words aren't enough every time. Actions speak much more.
DEYTH BANGER You are dead, you know!” he screeched delightedly, “Come on Miss Wright! Die! Die! DIE!
WILLIAM AXTELL The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
LELAND RYKEN The priests thought they knew what was best for the Indians, but they did not respect Indian culture...
JAMES SANDOS The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their ho...
LELAND RYKEN The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing witho...
MIKE NORTON If you're asking all this because of Wendell, forget it. Wendell has a few marbles missing when it c...
FRANCISCO X. STORK I thought it was like a gift from God. I hate that we had the disaster, but it gave us some joy.
HARRY BROWN Connolly was a realist, Pearse the direct opposite, ... through hell had such action been necessary....
MICHAEL COLLINS The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
THOMAS CARLYLE My mother overstated the dangers of the world – invented threats. And so I saw: Starbursts’ hoof...
ASPEN MATIS What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material...
V. S. NAIPAUL I'm sure that the mayor thought he gave you the list and that was sufficient,
CHARLES PICKERING . . . but it was their relation, and his coming to her like that, openly, so that anyone could see, ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Vision without action is merely a dream; action without vision is merely passing time; but vision an...
SUDHA MURTY When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Actio...
PLUTARCH When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he
answered, "Action," and which was...
PLUTARCH My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I wo...
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
ELIZABETH DREW The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
ELIZABETH DREW The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion
ELIZABETH DREW That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converte...
C.S. LEWIS That was a big play. It gave us new life. We ran a little play action. Michael ran a good route and ...
GARY HOUSEHOLDER I thought that the initiative that the Senate produced was very important and very effective,
ALAN GREENSPAN Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving f...
CHARLES DICKENS There are no French Puritans.
MICHAEL KORDA The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
JACOB BRONOWSKI Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ...
ALBERT CAMUS No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a ...
LELAND RYKEN The expectation of a good harvest makes the farmer to plant his seed
SOTONYE ANGA
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WENDELL BYRD It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numer...
WENDELL BERRY We played hard and we played good defense. We just didn't shoot well. People can preach team (play) ...
WENDELL JEFFRIES When a balance between Trinidad and island interests is being served, and the Caribbean is again spe...
WENDELL MOTTLEY Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at ...
WENDELL BERRY No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever ca...
WENDELL BERRY The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
WENDELL BERRY Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To b...
WENDELL BERRY ...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing respo...
WENDELL BERRY We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ...
WENDELL BERRY Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that u...
WENDELL BERRY We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Someti...
WENDELL BERRY Sabbaths, 1982—IV
(“A gardener rises out of the ground”)
Thrush song,...
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