"We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives."
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"Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness."
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"Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter."
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"There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving."
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"Nothing can come of nothing; he who has laid up no materials can produce no combinations."
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"Avoid sin: ... all your deeds are faithfully recorded."
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"The blade itself incites to deeds of violence."
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"My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time."
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"Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times."
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"It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow."
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"Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion."
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"I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me."
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"If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few."
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"A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment."
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"God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us."
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"Doubts could be swept away only by deeds."
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"The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life."
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"It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it."
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"Not even death can wipe out our good deeds"
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"The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds"
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