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Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.
The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.
I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
We believe only in deeds and acts and not in declarations. We are fed up with all those declarations, promises.
The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.
Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.
I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds; I do not make the accident of birth The standard of their merit.
I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.
Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.
The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.
I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.
Discrimination was a problem before terrorism. Now, the bad deeds of a few people have made life worse for millions.
There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.
It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.
Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.
It is only those who feel disconnected and seperated from the Oneness of All That Is that can ever commit evil deeds.
Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.
Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.
Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.
Help me, O Lord, that my hands may be merciful and filled with good deeds, so that I may do only good to my neighbors.
For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.
The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.
Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.
Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds.
I was always more of a Lydia Deeds than a Disney Princess, so anything offbeat like that, I would love to be a part of.
It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.
O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed.
Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.
My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
Every deed has a seed. In other words, the deeds you choose to do in this lifetime create a seed for future generations.
Deeds are not accomplished in a few days, or in a few hours. A century is only a spoke in the wheel of everlasting time.
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.
The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.