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"Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them."
"Don't settle for helping those who will help you in return or doing a good deed for others to see. Help others without expecting anything back. Even if nobody else cares, God will notice."
"It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change."
"Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles."
"Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds."
"Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom."
"One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy."
"We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours."
"deeds cannot dream what dreams can do"
"if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one."
"All pity choked with custom of fell deeds."
"I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme. . ."
"Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness."
"In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing."
"Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back."
"And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one."
"If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds."
"The word is the shadow of the deed."
"Hot blood begets hot thoughts, And hot thoughts beget Hot deeds, And hot deeds is love."
"Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets."
