Deeds Quotes - Page 18

O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed.

God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds.

If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.

Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.

Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.

For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.

A noble deed is a step towards heaven.

Boasts are wind and deeds are hard.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask.

But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

No good deed ever goes wasted.

If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.

Our good and bad deeds follow us almost like a shadow.

Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.

We will take the good-will for the deed.

Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.

Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.

Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.