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The irony is that China is repressing leftist students whose words and
deeds
embody the CPC’s original ideals.
But we do know it will be built upon the words and
deeds
we choose now.
Powerful allies like the EU can break that cycle, but only if they back up their words with
deeds.
Violent words go hand in hand with violent
deeds.
He might find inspiration in advice found in the Analects of Confucius: “A gentleman would be ashamed should his
deeds
not match his words.”
Yet, given the depth of political polarization nowadays, we would all do well to consider the
deeds
performed by figures some might now regard as our opponents.
The next time you hear of some ugly deed committed by someone you regard as an opponent, take a minute to remember that most of us are capable of performing good – even heroic – deeds, too.
In the absence of
deeds
or titles, land tenure often is governed by customary rules applied by local chiefs.
And the heroism of the Serbs and Montenegrins, fighting for a great cause, aroused in the whole nation a desire to help their brothers not only with words but by
deeds.
I'll let the reader decide which of these
deeds
was more beneficial to humanity.
I related to him what the final
deeds
of Captain Dumont d'Urville had brought to light,
deeds
described here in this heavily condensed summary of the whole matter.
Then, chart in hand, we returned to the
deeds
of the French navigator: his voyages to circumnavigate the globe, his double attempt at the South Pole, which led to his discovery of the Adélie Coast and the Louis-Philippe Peninsula, finally his hydrographic surveys of the chief islands in Oceania.
I'm the chronicler of
deeds
seemingly impossible and yet incontestably real.
The writer whose narratives record the lofty
deeds
of those heroic times is Plato himself.
And even when our hearts could beat with yours, moved by some of your griefs or stirred by your
deeds
of courage and genius, we've had to stifle even the slightest token of that sympathy that arises at the sight of something fine and good, whether it comes from friend or enemy.
Even if we allow him Julien's imagination, a young man brought up among the melancholy truths of Paris would have been aroused at this stage in his romance by the cold touch of irony; the mighty
deeds
would have vanished with the hope of performing them, to give place to the well-known maxim: 'When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.'
I should thus arrive at eight and twenty; but, at that age, Napoleon had already done his greatest
deeds!
At Pere-Lachaise, when people strew flowers on their graves, as you so charmingly say in Paris, we are told that they combined all the virtues of the knights of old, and we hear of the great
deeds
of their ancestor who lived in the days of Henri IV: If, despite the good offices of Principe d'Araceli, I am not hanged, and if I ever come to enjoy my fortune in Paris, I hope to invite you to dine with nine or ten murderers who are honoured and feel no remorse.
That love never basely succumbed to obstacles; far from it, it caused great
deeds
to be done.
I have no birth, so I require great qualities, ready on demand, with no flattering suppositions, qualities proved by eloquent
deeds
...'He spent a quarter of an hour pacing the floor of his room.
Tell the lawyer to draft two separate
deeds
of gift, and to bring me them tomorrow; after which, no further relations between us.
No, Peyton, you are formed for great and glorious actions,
deeds
of daring and renown, and should be united to a soul like your own; one that can rise above the weakness of her sex.
It was soon opened, and he read: "The moon will not rise till after midnight - a fit time for
deeds
of darkness."
Quick, to your posts, and fire the house in the chambers; smoking ruins are good to cover evil deeds."
His
deeds
are rank to heaven!"
Deeds
have been done during these last twenty years that have not been forgotten.
Thus setting out, our new-fledged adventurer paced along, talking to himself and saying,"Who knows but that in time to come, when the veracious history of my famous
deeds
is made known, the sage who writes it, when he has to set forth my first sally in the early morning, will do it after this fashion?
"Happy the age, happy the time," he continued, "in which shall be made known my
deeds
of fame, worthy to be moulded in brass, carved in marble, limned in pictures, for a memorial for ever.
"I looked for no less, my lord, from your High Magnificence," replied Don Quixote, "and I have to tell you that the boon I have asked and your liberality has granted is that you shall dub me knight to-morrow morning, and that to-night I shall watch my arms in the chapel of this your castle; thus tomorrow, as I have said, will be accomplished what I so much desire, enabling me lawfully to roam through all the four quarters of the world seeking adventures on behalf of those in distress, as is the duty of chivalry and of knights-errant like myself, whose ambition is directed to such deeds."
And it could have been only the devil himself that put into his head tales to match his own adventures, for now, forgetting Baldwin, he bethought himself of the Moor Abindarraez, when the Alcaide of Antequera, Rodrigo de Narvaez, took him prisoner and carried him away to his castle; so that when the peasant again asked him how he was and what ailed him, he gave him for reply the same words and phrases that the captive Abindarraez gave to Rodrigo de Narvaez, just as he had read the story in the "Diana" of Jorge de Montemayor where it is written, applying it to his own case so aptly that the peasant went along cursing his fate that he had to listen to such a lot of nonsense; from which, however, he came to the conclusion that his neighbour was mad, and so made all haste to reach the village to escape the wearisomeness of this harangue of Don Quixote's; who, at the end of it, said,"Senor Don Rodrigo de Narvaez, your worship must know that this fair Xarifa I have mentioned is now the lovely Dulcinea del Toboso, for whom I have done, am doing, and will do the most famous
deeds
of chivalry that in this world have been seen, are to be seen, or ever shall be seen."
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