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Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness. – Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you; and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds. – Koran, (c. 651 AD)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave. – The Talmud	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. – Francois De La Rochefoucauld	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time. – Haniel Long	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. – George Eliot	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. – Peter Marshall	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The Whites told only one side. Told it to please themselves. Told much that is not true. Only his own best deeds, only the worst deeds of the Indians, has the white man told – Nez Perces	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. – Johann von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. – Herodotus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. – Martin Luther King, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. – Buddha	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison. – Buddha	added by anonymous 14 years ago
On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him. – Buddha	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices. – Otto von Bismark	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is not the critic that counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or the doer of deeds could have them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the Arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming but he who does actually strive to do the deed who knows the great devotion who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls, who know neither victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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