“Good actions give strength to ourselves, and inspire good actions in others.”
Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) Scottish author
Duty: With Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance (1880), Ch. 2, p. 49
“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.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 5.
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