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Quotes about deeds and good deeds
A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward. (Basil St.)
What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? Absurd -- or insincere? (Basil St.)
Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds. (Basil St.)
Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem. (Basil St.)
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. (Basil St.)
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. (Basil St.)
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. (Basil St.)
The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason. (Basil St.)
Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. (Basil St.)
Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse. (Basil St.)
Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds. (Basil St.)
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. (Basil St.)
We are the children of our own deeds. (Basil St.)
How ever a brilliant an action, it should not be viewed as great unless it is the result of a great motive. (Basil St.)
The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. (Basil St.)
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. (Basil St.)
Happy is the man whose deeds are greater than his learning (Basil St.)
Mighty in deeds and not in words. (Basil St.)
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. (Basil St.)
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. (Basil St.)
Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first. (Basil St.)
Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds. (Basil St.)
Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combination. (Basil St.)
Men of real merit, whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge are not yet to be endured when they vaunt their own actions. (Basil St.)
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it. (Basil St.)
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