"What if my words Were meant for deeds."
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"I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death."
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"Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves."
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"There is no nobler deed than the performance of one's duty."
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"An ill deed cannot bring honor."
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"Words are women, deeds are men."
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"The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]"
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"Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get."
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"Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue."
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"In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world."
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"Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy."
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"If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am."
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"Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed."
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"All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme."
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"Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings."
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"If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad."
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"Song forbids victorious deeds to die."
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"But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them."
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"The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it."
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"The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness."
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