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  True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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  The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

  John Burroughs

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• It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?

  Emilie Autumn

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  The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

  T. S. Eliot

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

  Miguel de Cervantes

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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

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• Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

  Tama Janowitz

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• Looking at a tree see its fruit; looking at a man see his deeds.

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• The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

  William Shakespeare

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• The wish is the father of the deed.

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• An evil deed has a witness in the bosom.

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• Better to do a kindness near home than go far away to burn incense.

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• Deeds are fruits, words are leaves.

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• Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

  Albert Schweitzer

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• But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

  Theodore Bikel

  Topics in Death

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• We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

  Philip James Bailey

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• The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

  Mason Cooley

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• Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

  William Feather

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• Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• 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.

  John Locke

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