Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Action is transitory a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

The cattle are grazing,Their heads never raising;There are forty feeding like one!