"Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten."
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"At the moment of death we will not be judged according to the number of good deeds we have done or by the diplomas we have received in our lifetime. We will be judged according to the love we have put into our work."
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"It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more."
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"The purpose firm is equal to the deed"
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"Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now."
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"A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence."
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"Fear to do ill, and you need fear else."
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"No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove."
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"I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear."
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"We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts."
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"Brave deeds are wasted when hidden."
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"Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden."
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"I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame."
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"Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice."
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"The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions."
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"Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high station, and is the prize awarded for the noblest deeds; and such a thing is honor, for honor is clearly the greatest of external goods."
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"I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty."
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"How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!"
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"The attempt and not the deed confounds us."
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"Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise."
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