"To do something is in every man's power."
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"It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the kind that involves putting on a suit and ringing people's doorbells; but the kind that involves having your own TV network and getting people to send you money."
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"I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds."
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"I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made."
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"The profit on a good action is to have done it."
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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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"If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds."
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"My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds."
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"If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones."
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"Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer."
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". . .It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil. . ."
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"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure."
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"Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify."
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"What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?"
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"Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed."
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"Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men."
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"The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds."
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"A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season."
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"Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance."
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"When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column."
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