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- Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought. — Heinrich Heine
- Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. — George Bernard Shaw
- Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. — George Bernard Shaw
- Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. — George Bernard Shaw