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“A time may come soon," said he, "when none will return. Then there will be need of valour without renown, for none shall remember…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.

— Henry David Thoreau

A noble deed is a step towards heaven.

— J. G. Holland

The glorified will not be pilgrims, transient visitors, or tenants at will, but settled, permanent, walled, established by title, through eternity by warrantee deed,…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.

— Thorstein Veblen

There is no nobler deed than the performance of one's duty.

— Len Smith

“The descendants of Abraham were flattered by the opinion, that they alone were the heirs of the covenant, and they were apprehensive of diminishing…

— Edward Gibbon

Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into His presence. To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime; to keep them…

— Boyd K. Packer

He who has annexed them [some principalities], if he wishes to hold them, has only to bear in mind two considerations: the one that…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

— Joshua Chamberlain