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Yes, and words are not deeds, Solanka allowed, moving off fretfully. Though words can become deeds. ...

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Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not help himself.

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

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Benjamin FranklinFart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, ...

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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is no...

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I carry my adornments on my soul.I do not dress up like a popinjay;But inwardly, I keep my daintines...

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What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan...

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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the lo...

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Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word...

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Friedrich NietzscheThe Portable Nietzsche

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

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

Humans are caught -- in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their ava...

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The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in ea...

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it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Count the deed, not the thought.

Fanfare for the MakersA cloud of witnesses. To whom? To what?To the small fire that never leaves the...

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Louis MacNeiceCollected Poems of Louis MacNeice

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.

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MaimonidesThe Guide for the Perplexed

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to hon...

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