#deeds

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. ↗

— George Eliot

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper. ↗

— Philip Schaff

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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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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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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

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Don't be vain. What you look like doesn't matter. It's the deed that matters. ↗

— Sarah Addison Allen

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The desire for sudden change and the thought of their realization by force often appears among men like a disease and gains ground mainly in young brains; only these brains do not think as they should, do not amount to anything in the end and the heads that think thus do not remain long on their shoulders. For it is not human desires that dispose and administer the things of this world. Desire is like a wind, it sifts the dust from one place to another, sometimes darkens the whole horizon, but in the end calms down and leaves the old and eternal picture of the world. Lasting deeds are realized on this earth only by God’s will, and man is only His humble and blind tool. ↗

— Ivo Andrić

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