Greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means.
All creation begins with thought ("Proceeds from the Father"). All creation then moves to word ("Ask and you shall receive, speak and it shall be done unto you"). All creation is fulfilled in deed ("And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us").
The word is the shadow of the deed.
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
Despite the changes which come into our lives and with gratitude in our hearts, may we fill our days-as much as we can-with those things which matter most. May we cherish those we hold dear and express our love to them in word and in deed.
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
A good deed is the best prayer.
Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.
The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal.
Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.
And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.
You might be a redneck if your good deed for the month was hiding your brother for a few days.
The better day, the worse deed.
it is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime.
This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul's creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being.
God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head.