"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it."
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"For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life."
"Deed done is well begun."
"To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task."
"In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress."
"How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!"
"Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?"
"As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full."
"I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict."
"Count that day lost whose descending sun finds you with no good deeds done."