"What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?"
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"I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold."
"One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent."
"Discipleship is rooted in a deep belief in the universal reign of God through Christ. To be a disciple is to acknowledge that reign and to embrace the lifelong journey of submitting more and more of every aspect of your life to His good, just, and peaceable reign, as well as alerting others to God's kingship by both word and deed."
"The reward of a good deed is in having done it."
"The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds."
"This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil."
"Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment."
"Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee."
"Wherever a person goes, his deeds, like a shadow, will follow."
"Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that."
"A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame."
"Greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means."
"When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds."
"In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure."
"The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything."
"A good picture is equivalent to a good deed."
"The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others."
"A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed."
"I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a shelter under…which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection"