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«Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Patience
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active, concentrated, contrary, on the contrary, passive
«One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.»
Author: James C. Humes
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«Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.»
«Some people have active imaginations, but they don't know me and they're wrong if they think they do.»
«The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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Charity,
Life,
Social service
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active, dreaming, seeing, visions
«The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.»
«The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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active, conformity, exercise, faculties, several
«The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.»
«The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul»
«Perhaps it will seem to you that the sunshine is brighter and that everything has a new charm. At least, I believe this is always the result of a deep love, and it is a beautiful thing. And I believe people who think love prevents one from thinking clearly are wrong; for then one thinks very clearly and is more active than before. And love is something eternal--the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and it was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
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