None but the brave deserve accolades.
None is a fused determiner that can take singular non-count nouns (None of the meat was fresh) and plural nouns (None of the boys went). The brave here is understood as brave people where the head is the plural noun people; so plural deserve is fine.
No one deserves accolades but the brave.
No one is a compound determiner whose nominal base/head is the singular one so it takes singular verb agreement, as in your example with the singular deserves.
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