Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.
"Germany". Book by Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Part I, Chapter VIII; Reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" (1922), p. 787-90, 1813.
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