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In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound… — Charlaine Harris
And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is… — Philip Pullman
And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good… — C.S. Lewis
See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his… — Henry David Thoreau
I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me. — James Joyce
Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not… — James Lee Burke
They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be hurried by the… — Karen Maitland
Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked… — Charles Dickens
It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the… — Terry Pratchett
Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of… — Vasily Grossman
To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but… — Alexandre Dumas
Then you'd better listen, because me sounding like Bronte is one of the signs of the apocalypse-and if the end fo the world is coming,… — Neal Shusterman
What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my… — William Shakespeare
Bad deeds like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder. — J R Ward
I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and… — Anne Frank
Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a… — Henryk Sienkiewicz
With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search… — William Least Heat-Moon
Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one else on the… — Karl Ove Knausgard
As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake. — Juliet Marillier
If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad. — Friedrich Schiller
For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter. — Henry Miller
It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and begins… — Andrei Tarkovsky
As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination. — Elizabeth Kostova
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the… — Victor Hugo

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