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Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
Author:
Stefan Zweig
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
Author:
Emile Zola
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The purpose firm is equal to the deed.
Author:
Edward Young
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The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
Author:
William Yeats
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With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.
Author:
Ella Wilcox
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One brave deed makes no hero.
Author:
John Whittier
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A good deed never goes unpunished.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
Author:
Sophocles
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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
Author:
Albert Schweitzer
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If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.
Author:
Josiah Royce
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The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.
Author:
Josiah Royce
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No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.
Author:
Josiah Royce
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A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.
Author:
Sidney Poitier
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
Author:
Ovid
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Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.
Author:
Lewis Mumford
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Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development.
Author:
Johann Most
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While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.
Author:
Johann Most
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For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.
Author:
Thomas Mann
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
Author:
Maimonides
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No good deed goes unpunished.
Author:
Clare Luce
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In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.
Author:
Clare Luce
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I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
Author:
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
Author:
Yahya Jammeh
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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
Author:
Muhammed Iqbal
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Author:
Henrik Ibsen
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Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
Author:
A. Housman
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He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
Author:
Horace
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He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
Author:
Oliver Holmes
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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The better day, the worse deed.
Author:
Matthew Henry
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Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.
Author:
Paul Harris
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A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Author:
Vincent Gogh
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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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Deed, not words shall speak me.
Author:
John Fletcher
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Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
Author:
Arthur Erickson
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Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
Author:
Quintus Ennius
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Author:
T. Eliot
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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
Author:
George Eliot
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Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.
Author:
Charles Eastman
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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
Author:
Amelia Earhart
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God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
Author:
Pierre Charron
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Thought is the parent of the deed.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
Author:
John Burroughs
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We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed.
Author:
Camilla Bowles
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
Author:
Bodhidharma
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It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
Author:
Algernon Blackwood
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
Author:
Brendan Behan
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Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below.
Author:
Lewis Bates
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Author:
Saint Basil
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For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.
Author:
Pedro Barca
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The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.
Author:
Roger Baldwin
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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
Author:
Abu Bakr
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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
Author:
Ausonius
