"You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair."
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"Words pay no debts, give her deeds."
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"For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds."
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"Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death."
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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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"Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word."
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"Words to deeds cold breath gives."
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"We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the gloom oEurope until they become the veritable beacon oits salvation."
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"Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee."
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"For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded."
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"Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery."
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"He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds."
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"The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied."
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"But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go."
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"Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue."
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"Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds."
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"The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do."
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"He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted."
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"Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed."
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"A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed."
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