O Lord, how many read the Word, and yet from vice are not deterred.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
The man who has accomplished all that he thinks worthwhile has begun to die.
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention
Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first.
Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience.
Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis ''good works'' make the man.
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.
We are the children of our own deeds.
What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed — and not for pay? Absurd — or insincere?
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
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