It is well to think well: it is divine to act well.--HORACE MANN.

Active natures are rarely melancholy. Activity and melancholy are
incompatible.--BOVEE.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Finds us farther than to-day.

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Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, act, in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!
--LONGFELLOW.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the
world weigh less than a single lovely action.--LOWELL.

Prodigious actions may as well be done
By weaver's issue, as by prince's son.
--DRYDEN.

It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and
vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the
poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the
dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero.--CARLYLE.