Deeds Quotes
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The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
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Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
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I never saw a mob rush across town to do a good deed.
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And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.
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Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real estate, and great ships on the sea, does not own a single minute of tomorrow. Tomorrow! It is a mysterious possibility, not yet born. It lies under the seal of midnight-behind the veil of glittering constellations.
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How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds.
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From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
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It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
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In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Those who think clean thoughts do not do dirty deeds.
