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"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. on deeds and good deeds    Share


"The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it."

Stael, Germaine De on science    Share

"Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them."

Stael, Germaine De on service    Share

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"We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us."

Stael, Germaine De on love
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"Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end."

Stael, Germaine De on love
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"The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man."

Stael, Germaine De on desire
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"You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you."

Baum, Vicki on stress    Share

"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."

Eliot, George on deeds and good deeds
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"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."

Eliot, George on deeds and good deeds
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"The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason."

Eliot, T. S. on deeds and good deeds
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"Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice."

Ford, Henry on deeds and good deeds
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"The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident."

Lamb, Charles on deeds and good deeds    Share

"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression."

Smith, Dodie on deeds and good deeds    Share

"If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life."

Thoreau, Henry David on deeds and good deeds
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"The man who has accomplished all that he thinks worthwhile has begun to die."

Trigg, E. T. on deeds and good deeds    Share

"Good deeds from good intentions flow; but good intentions only; build for us a place below."

Unknown, Source on deeds and good deeds
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"That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."

Wordsworth, William on deeds and good deeds
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"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"And our dreams are who we are."

Sher, Barbara on dream
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Pornography tells lies about women. But pornography tells the truth about men."

Stoltenberg, John on nudity    Share

"To see you naked is to recall the Earth."

Lorca, Federico Garcia on nudity    Share

"I would rather live my life than watch another person's life on T.V."

Unknown, Source on vision
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"I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts."

Welles, Orson on vision    Share

"Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions."

Randolph, John on time    Share

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us."

Johnson, Samuel on trust    Share

"To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself."

Johnson, Samuel on unemployment    Share

"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."

Johnson, Samuel on value    Share

"Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything."

Johnson, Samuel on virtue    Share

"Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts."

Johnson, Samuel on wine    Share

"What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity."

Crosland, Anthony on generations
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"For the dead there are no more toils."

Sophocles on death    Share

"I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating."

Sophocles on failure
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"To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task."

Sophocles on deeds and good deeds
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"To him who is in fear everything rustles."

Sophocles on fear    Share

"There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?"

Sophocles on forgiveness
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"Kindness gives birth to kindness."

Sophocles on kindness
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"Best to live lightly, unthinkingly."

Sophocles on life
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"Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men."

Lewis, Wyndham on indolence    Share

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