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Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act
So work the honey-bees,
Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
When my outward action doth demonstrate
The native act and figure of my heart ...
Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
'Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
Everyman, I will go with thee, and be thy guide,
In thy most need to go by thy side.
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
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