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• Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?

  St. Jerome

  Practice, Church, May

  "Letter 54" by Saint Jerome,

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• Take account of your deeds before they are taken account of.

  Umar

  Taken, Accounts

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• Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

  George Eliot

  Children, May, Action

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.681, Broadview Press

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• Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Long, Progress, Our Words

  Nobel Lecture, delivered 5 May 2010, Oslo, Norway

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• Karma is the record of services. Karma is the term used in Buddhist teaching. Taoists use the term te. Christians us the term "deed." Many other spiritual beings use the term "virtue." Karma, te, deed, and virtue are the same thing but in different words. To understand karma is to understand all of these words.

  Zhi Gang Sha

  Karma, Christian, Spiritual

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• These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.

  Alexander H. Stephens

  Education, Integrity, Character

  Remarks in the House, as quoted in "Congressional Record", vol. 11, p. 1611, February 15, 1881.

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• Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.

  David Helvarg

  Office, Epa, Administration

  Grist magazine, January 03, 2005.

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• Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself...As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Love, Struggle, Heaven

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• The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their souls. On the one hand, there is the happiness which comes from wealth, honor, the enjoyment of life, from health, culture, science, or art; and, on the other hand, there is the happiness which is to be found in a good conscience, in virtue, work, philanthropy, religion, devotion to great ideas and great deeds.

  Carl Hilty

  Art, Lying, Journey

  Carl Hilty (2013). “Happiness - Essays On The Meaning Of Life”, p.56, Read Books Ltd

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• We can bear up under everything, if we have only the certainty that the monster Hitler with his insatiable bloodletting and plundering will have committed soon his last shameful deed.

  Friedrich Kellner

  Monsters, Lasts, Bears

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• Foreigners are sending messages to the planets. We are sending rice and cereals to our dead fore-father through the Brahmins. It is a wise deed?

  Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

  Wise, Father, Cereal

  Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 511, 2005.

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• Faith in the continuance and enhancement of the intrinsic values--faith in truth, in beauty, in friendship, in love and harmony of life--in short, faith in reason and the worth of spiritual life--such faith is only another name for faith in the persistence of spiritual individuality. For, I repeat, these values are real only as functions of personal experience and deed. To have faith in the permanence of intrinsic values is to assume the enduring reality of selves who know truth, feel beauty, who love and win spiritual harmony.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Spiritual, Real, Persistence

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• In passing around the holy aged house (Kaa'bah), and crossing the Safa and Marwa lanes, in prayer inside the Ka'bah, in bowing and prostration, Kuwait was a prayer throbbed in my heart and uttered by my tongue.. Praying for God to protect us from the evils of ourselves and our bad deeds, Praying for God to keep blessing the people of Kuwait with the grace of unity, not to be torn by a difference, and the grace of love not to be destroyed by disputes, and the grace of progress not to be hampered by prejudices.

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Prayer, Heart, Blessing

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• Beauty does not come with creams and lotions. God can give us beauty, but whether that beauty remains or chagnes is determined by our thoughts and deeds.

  Dolores del Rio

  Women, Giving, Doe

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• There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed are only partly ours.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Philosophy, Memorable

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.207, Courier Corporation

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• What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.

  Edwin Gaustad

  Government, Atheism, Enmity

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• And when the Old Man wished to kill someone, he would take him and say: "Go and do this thing. I do this because I want to make you return to paradise." And the assassins go and perform the deed willingly.

  Marco Polo

  Men, Atheism, Assassins

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• That utterance of Jesus, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's," is one of the most revolutionary and history-making utterances that ever fell from those lips divine. That utterance, once and for all, marked the divorcement of church and state. It marked a new era for the creeds and deeds of men.

  George W Truett

  Jesus, Men, Atheism

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• I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Darkness, Three, Paradise

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• For, owners of their deeds (karma) are the beings, heirs of their deeds; their deeds are the womb from which they sprang; with their deeds they are bound up; their deeds are their refuge. Whatever deeds they do-good or evil-of such they will be the heirs. And wherever the beings spring into existence, there their deeds will ripen; and wherever their deeds ripen, there they will earn the fruits of those deeds, be it in this life, or be it in the next life, or be it in any other future life.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Spring, Evil

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• Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Pain, Moving

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• Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Brave, Brave Man

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• Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).

  Horace

  Night, Men, Bravery

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 82-83, Odes, Book IV, IX. 25, 1922.

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• I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

  George Eliot

  Trust, Men, Might

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.211

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• Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.

  George Eliot

  Inspiration, Names, Analysis

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.98

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