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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds. ↗

— Sophocles

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To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task. ↗

— Sophocles

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Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day. ↗

— Sophocles

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If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too. ↗

— Sophocles

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It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds. ↗

— Sophocles

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The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. ↗

— Robert Southey

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It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ↗

— Robert Southey

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