“I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties.”

— William Mountford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 5.

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English Unitarian preacher and author 1816–1885

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“I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties.”

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