"Our words have wings, but fly not where we would."

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"Our words have wings, but fly not where we would."

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"All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect."

Walter Annenberg, American Businessman

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"For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds."

Robert Greene, English Playwright

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"A man is great by deeds, not by birth."

Chanakya, Indian Politician

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"Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars."

Tama Janowitz, American Novelist

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"It is a good deed to forget a poor joke."

Brendan Behan, Irish Dramatist

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"Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it."

David Mallet, Scottish Dramatist

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

Dodie Smith, English Dramatist

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"In great deeds something abides."

Joseph L. Chamberlain, American Politician

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"It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?"

Algernon H. Blackwood, British Author

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"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder."

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"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear."

Love

"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows."

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"Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return."

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"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms."

Friendship

"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry."

Peace

"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet."

Death

"I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."

Fear

"What makes life dreary is the want of a motive."

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"A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe."

Happiness