"If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds."
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"We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds."
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"Count the deed, not the thought."
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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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"Strange thoughts beget strange deeds."
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"Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence."
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"A good deed hidden in silence dies."
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"It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts."
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"A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot."
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"The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors."
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"Graft good Fruit all, or graft not at all."
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"The memory of a good deed lives."
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"Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner."
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"It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served."
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"Our deeds will not cause God to love us more; our sins will not cause God to love us less."
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"Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake."
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"The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark."
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"Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake."
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"Anybody who is capable of doing terrible things, you don't want them out in the world, but you can't help but respect their ingenuity and their savvy and their intelligence as they go about their dastardly deeds."
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"Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory."
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