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• Heroic deeds, to use whatever dower Heaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power.

  Sarah Knowles Bolton

  Heroic Deeds, Heaven, Use

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• Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.

  Alan Barth

  Country, Hero, Character

  "The Rights of Free Men: An Essential Guide to Civil Liberties". Book by Alan Barth, 1984.

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• We are not saved by good deeds; we are saved for good deeds. Jesus transforms us to transform others.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Jesus, Good Deeds, Saved

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• Our deeds will not cause God to love us more; our sins will not cause God to love us less.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Causes, Sin

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• If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Example, Our Words, Our Actions

  H. Burke Peterson (1986). “A glimpse of glory”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. That is what it means to be educated.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Mean, Firsts, Educated

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1991). “Awakenings”

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• Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds. It is betting your life on the unseen realities

  Clarence Jordan

  Dream, Reality, Unseen

  Clarence Jordan (2004). “Cotton Patch Gospel: Hebrews and the General Epistles”, p.9, Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.

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• The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Men, Forgive And Forget, Forgiving

  "'Nahj al-Balagha' ('The Peak of Eloquence')". Book by Ali, translated by Askari Jafri,

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• Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.

  Hakim Bey

  Deployment, Sorcery, Ordinary

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.22, Autonomedia

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• The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden chord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors.

  Hakim Bey

  Dancing, Perception, Golden

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• The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon Hell and Damnation-upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment. We are still trained to believe a good deal that is simply childish in theology. The outward and visible punishment of every wrong deed that men do the repeated declaration that anything can be gotten by anyone at any time by prayer.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Prayer, Believe, Men

  W. E. B. Du Bois (1988). “Against Racism: Unpublished Essays, Papers, Addresses, 1887-1961”, p.84, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause. Good deeds are, in a deeper psychological way, a favor to oneself. If this is not grasped, then our whole sense of personal relationships becomes warped.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Nice, Done, Favors

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in power of ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not lost.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Adventure, Intellectual, Building

  "Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics". Book by F. A. Hayek, "The Intellectuals and Socialism", p. 194, 1967.

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• Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love, Flower, Sacrifice

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• The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

  Stanley Fish

  Reading, Ideas, Humanism

  "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

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• Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself in public by any thought, word, or deed, but communicates through subterranean depths of the imaginary with dreams as old as the world itself?

  Anne Desclos

  Dream, Who I Am, Long

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• If we are, in fact, now occupied in good deeds, we should not attribute the strength with which we are doing them to ourselves. We must not count on ourselves, because even if we know what kind of person we are today, we do not know what we will be tomorrow.

  Pope Gregory I

  Saint, Today, Facts

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• Loving one another with the charity of Christ, let the love you have in your hearts be shown outwardly in your deeds so that compelled by such an example, the sisters may also grow in the love of God and charity for one another.

  Clare of Assisi

  Christian, Love You, Heart

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• What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Good Life, Eye

  Saint Augustine (2010). “The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)”, p.31, CUA Press

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• Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven.

  James McCosh

  Eye, Humility, Pride

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 485, 1895.

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• As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear
  Into the Avon, Avon to the tide
  Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas,
  Into main ocean they, this deed accursed
  An emblem yields to friends and enemies
  How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified
  By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.

  William Wordsworth

  Friendship, Teacher, Truth

  "Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)". Part II, No. 17. "The Ecclesiastical sonnets of William Wordsworth", edited by Abbie Findlay Potts, archive.org. 1922.

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• Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry Where light has lingered, intimate and long. Full of tears and warm is an old friendship That asks no longer deeds of gallantry, Or any deed at all- save that the friend shall be Alive and breathing somewhere, like a song.

  Eunice Tietjens

  Friendship, Beautiful, Song

  Eunice Tietjens (1929). “Leaves in Windy Weather”

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• Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape.

  Davy Jones

  Dark, Sin, Fear Of Death

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• It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.

  Diane Watson

  Government, Watches, Action

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• You can be anybody you want to be
  you can love whomever you will
  you can travel any country where your heart leads
  and know (we) will love you still.
  
  You can live by yourself,
  you can gather friends around
  you can choose one special one.
  And the only measure of your words and your deeds
  will be the love you leave behind when you're done.

  Fred Small

  Life, Friends, Country

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