Deeds Quotes
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It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds.
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One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
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To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live in faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.
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If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.
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The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
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When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.
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I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.
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Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself Be laid in stillness, and the universe Quiver and breathe upon no mirror more.
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It is only those who feel disconnected and seperated from the Oneness of All That Is that can ever commit evil deeds.
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
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Love is worthless unless it acts out, unless it's expressed in deed and behavior.
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Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.
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We must all live so that our children do not have to pay for our deeds.
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In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
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Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
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Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.
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It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.
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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
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And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and a dotard of him? Keep him to myself at that cost? Make him so mine that he was no longer his?
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Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.
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The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.
