"The attempt and not the deed confounds us."

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"Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds."

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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, 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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"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned."

Peter Marshall, Scottish Clergyman

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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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"Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below."

Lewis J. Bates, American Educator

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

Walter Annenberg, American Businessman

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

Brendan Behan, Irish Dramatist

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"Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds."

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

"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?"

"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned."

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

"Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below."

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

"In great deeds something abides."

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

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