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• Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Son, Literature, Action

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• The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fiction, Doers

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.45, Vintage

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• To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

  Sophocles

  Men, Kind Deeds, Deeds Done

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• Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

  Douglas Coupland

  Believe, World, Ability

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• Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

  Blaise Pascal

  Ugly, Goodness, Noble Deeds

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• The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

  Leo Tolstoy

  God, Men, Deeds And Words

  Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Reginald Frank Christian (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”, Burns & Oates

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• Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “The Fifth Son: A novel”, p.54, Schocken

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• I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.

  Max von Sydow

  Believe, Evil, People

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• A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

  Confucius

  Deeds And Words, Gentleman, Would Be

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

  John Dewey

  Heart, Good Intentions, Conscience

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• Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Thoughtful, Winning

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.36, North Atlantic Books

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• We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Peace

  "Gandhi on Non-Violence".

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• What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Workout, People

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Accomplishment, Helping, Action

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bayard Taylor (1949). “Faust: A Tragedy in Two Parts”

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• A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Good Deeds

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.41, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

  Ben Harper

  Funny, Life, Heaven

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• The better day, the worse deed.

  Matthew Henry

  Better Days

  'An Exposition on the Old and New Testament' (1710) Genesis ch. 3, v. 6, gloss 2

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• It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Kindness, Kind Deeds, Judging

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

  Douglas Horton

  Thinking, Example, Enough

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• Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

  Douglas Horton

  Fear, Eye, Gun

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• A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Aggravation, Understanding

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• When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.

  Islom Karimov

  Kind Deeds, Justice, Liberty

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• The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

  Charles Lamb

  Character, Deeds Done, Charity

  "The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb".

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• A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

  Sidney Poitier

  Careers, Way, Good Thoughts

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• Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Book, Writing

  St. Mark's Rest preface (1877)

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