"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
— Action

January 1, 1970

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James Russell Lowell, Literary Essays, Vol. II (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890), "Rousseau and the Sentimentalists", p. 243.