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• You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Ideas, Gnats

  Victor Hugo (2009). “Things Seen (Choses Vues)”, p.78, Wildside Press LLC

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• Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor - the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart." Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with heroic and brave deeds. But in my opinion, this definition fails to recognize the inner strength and level of commitment required for us to actually speak honestly and openly about who we are and about our experiences -- good and bad. Speaking from our hearts is what I think of as "ordinary courage.

  Brené Brown

  Latin, Commitment, Heart

  "I thought it was just me". Book by Brené Brown, February 2007.

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• TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.

  Napoleon Hill

  World, Firsts, Think And Grow Rich

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.133, Penguin

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• The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Reality, Land

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.72, University of Illinois Press

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• I used to take on trust a man's deeds after having listened to his words. Now having listened to a man's words I go on to observe his deeds.

  Confucius

  Men, Goes On, Used

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• Women need to remember that if nature has made them plain, grace can make them beautiful, and if nature has made them beautiful, good deeds can add to their beauty. Grace will make you beautiful and will attract truly godly men to you. Make godliness and inward beauty your priority.

  Joshua Harris

  Beautiful, Godly, Men

  Joshua Harris (2009). “Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship”, p.118, Multnomah

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• The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other. The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds, that go on and are pushing themselves throughout all time. - Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

  David Mitchell

  Kindness, Eye, Past

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• In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Doe, Reason

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• Isn't every hero aware of all the terrible reason they did those good deeds?" Aware of every mistake they ever made and how good people got hurt because of their decisions? Don't they recall the moments they weren't heroic at all? The moments where their heroism led to more deaths than deliberate villainy ever could?

  Holly Black

  Hurt, Mistake, Hero

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• To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

  Elvis Presley

  Ocean, Men, Judging

  "Elvis' Bible containing handwritten notes by the star expected to fetch thousands at auction" by Anthony Bond, www.dailymail.co.uk. August 15, 2012.

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• Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back
  Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,
  A great-sized monster of ingratitudes:
  Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd
  As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Past, Monsters

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 145

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• Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

  Aristotle

  Life, Time, Memories

  "'Lettre d'Aristote à Alexandre sur la politique envers les cités' ('The Letter of Aristotle to Alexander on the Policy toward the Cities')". Arabic text translated and edited by Józef Bielawski and Marian Plezia, p. 72, 1970.

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• In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

  George Eliot

  Time, Men, Ties

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.104, Penguin

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• In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Time, Fate

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “The poetical works”

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• Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God
  and the love of our fellow men
  should prevail over all hatred and bitterness,
  a time when our thoughts
  and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.

  George McDougall

  Christmas, Mean, Healing

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• The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.

  Victor Hugo

  Courage, Men, Light

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

  Plutarch

  Courage, Men, Evil

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 166), 1895.

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• For there are three ways of performing an act of mercy: the merciful word, by forgiving and by comforting; secondly, if you can offer no word, then pray - that too is mercy; and thirdly, deeds of mercy. And when the Last Day comes, we shall be judged from this, and on this basis we shall receive the eternal verdict.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Forgiveness, Comforting, Forgiving

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• We must all live so that our children do not have to pay for our deeds.

  Andrejs Upits

  Children, Freedom, Democracy

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• In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Freedom, Inspiration, 4th Of July

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Future, Tomorrow

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• This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

  Tacitus

  History, Evil, Action

  Tacitus (2007). “The Annals & The Histories”, p.25, Modern Library

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• Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Hope, World

  Bertrand Russell (2006). “Political Ideals”, p.90, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Superior leaders get things done with very little motion. They impart instruction not through many words, but through a few deeds. They keep informed about everything but interfere hardly at all. They are catalysts, and though things would not get done as well if they were not there, when they succeed they take no credit. And, because they take no credit, credit never leaves them.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Done, Littles

  "Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success" by Jim Clemmer, (p. 137), 1999.

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• Thus at the flaming forge of life
  Our fortunes must be wrought;
  Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
  Each burning deed and thought!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Burning, Anvils

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.37

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