Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.
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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
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Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow and precipitates itself there from. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
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Every noble work is at first impossible. quoted by Og Mandino.
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