| Concept: | Action. |
| Category: | 1. Simple voluntary action |
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"action is eloquence" [Coriolanus]; actions speak louder than words; actum aiunt ne agas [Terence]; "awake, arise, or be forever fall'n" [Paradise Lost); dii pia facta vident [Ovid]; faire sams dire; fare fac; fronte capillata post est occasio calva; " our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts" [Bailey]; "the great end of life is not knowledge but action [Huxley]; "thought is the soul of act" [R. Browning]; vivre-ce
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| Antonyms: | inaction |
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| Concept: | [Indefinite duration] Course. |
| Category: | 1. ABSOLUTE TIME |
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labitur et labetur [Horace]; truditur dies die [Horace]; fugaces labuntur anni [Horace]; "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day"
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| Concept: | Haste. |
| Category: | 1. Simple voluntary action |
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sauve qui peut, devil take the hindmost, no time to be lost; no sooner said than done (early); a word and a blow; maggire fretta minore atto; ohne Hast aber ohne Rast [German] [Goethe's motto]; "stand not upon the order of your going but go at once" [Macbeth]; "swift, swift, you
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| Antonyms: | leisure |
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