Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul.
Activity will cleanse and brighten it. [ Johnson ]
Observation - activity of both eyes and ears. [ Horace Mann ]
Every species of activity is met by a negation. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The primary vocation of man is a life of activity. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Every pleasure pre-supposes some sort of activity. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Earnest activity always reconciles us with life in the end. [ Jean Paul ]
Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy. [ Goethe ]
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Activity is the presence of function. Character is the record of function. [ Greenough ]
Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought. [ Beecher ]
Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire. [ Bancroft ]
Active natures are rarely melancholy. Activity and melancholy are incompatible. [ Bovee ]
Happiness consists in activity; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool. [ J. M. Good ]
Man's activity is all too fain to relax; he soon gets fond of unconditional repose. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Every power of both heaven and earth is friendly to a noble and courageous activity. [ J. Burroughs ]
Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes. [ Tupper ]
The idea you have once spoken, if even it were an idea, is no longer yours; it is gone from you, so much life and virtue is gone, and the vital circulations of yourself and your destiny and activity are henceforth deprived of it. [ Carlyle ]
Peacefully and reasonably to contemplate is at no time hurtful, and while we use ourselves to think of the advantages of others, our own mind comes insensibly to imitate them; and every false activity to which our fancy was alluring us is then willingly abandoned. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions. [ Burke ]
Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant? [ Colton ]