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William Shakespeare 699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes

“In such business
Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant
More learned than the ears.”

Attributed to "The First President of the United States" in "Liberty and Government" by W. M., in The Christian Science Journal, Vol. XX, No. 8 (November 1902) edited by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 465; no earlier or original source for this statement is cited; later quoted in The Cry for Justice : An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest (1915) edited by Upton Sinclair, p. 305, from which it became far more widely quoted and in Frank J. Wilstach, A Dictionary of Similes, 2d ed., p. 526 (1924). In The Great Thoughts (1985), George Seldes says, p. 441, col. 2, footnote, this paragraph “although credited to the ‘Farewell’ [address] cannot be found in it. Lawson Hamblin, who owns a facsimile, and Horace Peck, America’s foremost authority on quotations, informed me this paragraph is apocryphal.” It is listed as spurious at the Mount Vernon website http://www.mountvernon.org/research-collections/digital-encyclopedia/article/spurious-quotations/
Unsourced variant : Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
Misattributed, Spurious attributions
Variant: Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

“State of the Art” (p. 94)
Short fiction, The State of the Art (1991)

“Moksha' is not `Freedom from Action' but, `Freedom in Action.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

“Life is words in action, literature is action in words.”
Oluşmak (To Become) Aphorisms (Pan Publishing House, Istanbul, 2011)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 23.