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• Suit the action to the word, the word to the actio
  with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature....
• T is not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act iii, Sc. 3...
• With devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act iii, Sc. 1...
• The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic
  he high purpose, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward, to his object, this is eloquence, or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence- it is action noble, sublime, godlike action....
• Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force
  like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master....
• Omittance is no quittance. -- William Shakespeare
• To be, or not to be: that is the question... -- William Shakespeare, Hamle
• Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force
  like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master....
• Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Coriolanus -- Act i, Sc. 3...