Ability.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.-Walpole. Absence.

Love reckons hours for months and days for years, and every little absence is an age.-Dryden. Absent ones.

Speak well of the absent whenever you have a suitable opportunity.-J. Hall. Abstinence.

Against diseases here the strongest fence

Is the defensive virtue-abstinence.-Herrick.

Abuses.

There is a time when men will not suffer bad things because their ancestors have suffered worse. There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.-Burke.

Action.

Action is transitory-a step, a blow,

The motion of a muscle, this way or that. Wordsworth.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you outstep not the modesty of nature.Shakespeare.

The true benefactors of the world have always been eminent for action, and not for dreaming. -Chalmers.

When I detect myself in unprofitable reverie, let me make an instant transition from dreaming to doing.-Chalmers.

Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place; and this only by doing that which is great and noble.-Petrarch.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.-Shakespeare. Action and idleness.

Action keeps the soul in health, whereas idleness rusts the mind, and corrupts as well as benumbs all its active faculties.

Action, a good.

A good action is a treasure

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guarded for the doer's need.Proverb.

Action, prompt.

Advise well before you begin; when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.-Anon.

Action, purity of.

No action will be considered as blameless unless the will was so, for by the will was the act dictated.-Seneca. Action, right.

Right action is the result of right faith, but a true and right faith cannot be sustained, deepened, extended, save in a course of right action.-M'Combie. Action, true.

Onward while a wrong remains To be conquered by the right, While oppression lifts a finger To affront us by his might. While an error clouds the reason, Or a sorrow gnaws the heart, Or a slave awaits his freedom, Action is the wise man's part. Action, value of.

Words are good, but there is something better. The best is not to be explained by words.

The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can be only understood and represented by the spirit. No one knows what he is doing while he is acting rightly, but of what is wrong we are always conscious. Goethe.

Action, value of a kind.

There are few joys so great as that which springs from a kind act or pleasant deed, and you may