"Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds."
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"If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds."
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"Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds."
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"The intent and not the deed Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly Does greatly."
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"It is only our deeds that reveal who we are."
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"May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds."
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"To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe."
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"You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do."
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"The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason."
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"Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever."
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"The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out."
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"Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree."
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"No action is ever an isolated event. Always, it invites from the universe a reaction that corresponds exactly to the type and the force of energy behind the deed."
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"Words have a longer life than deeds."
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"Words are plentiful; deeds are precious."
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"The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds."
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"He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat."
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"What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?"
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"Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds."
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"Words are feminine; deeds are masculine."
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