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Inaction

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Here lies our sovereign lord the King,
Whose promise none relies on;
He never said a foolish thing,
Nor ever did a wise one.

John Wilmot (Earl of Rochester)

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You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing lately…. Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

Oliver Cromwell

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Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.
Reversion is the action of Tao.
Weakness is the function of Tao.
All things in the world come from being.
And being comes from non-being.

Lao Tzu

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Thus Belial with words cloth’d in reason’s garb
Counsel’d ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth,
Not peace.

John Milton

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The worst and best are both inclined
To snap like vixens at the truth;
But, O, beware the middle mind
That purrs and never shows a tooth!

Elinor Wylie

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Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Albert Camus

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I inwardly did nothing.
O Iscariot-like crime!

Marianne Moore

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