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Quotes About Deed

Nay,--conduct hath the loudest tongue. The voice Is but an instrument on which the priest May play what tune he pleases. In the deed, The unequivocal authentic deed, We find sound argument, and read the heart.
~ William Cowper
The utility of "structural" racism for demagogues like Jackson is that even while acknowledging that the vast majority of whites are no longer overtly racist, the concept makes all whites guilty nonetheless. No individual white has to be a racist in actual thought or deed to participate in the racist system or to reap its privileges.
~ David Horowitz
Thani's man, Yahood, who was leader in the other case of 40 killed, boasted before me of the deed. I said, "You were sent here not to murder, but to trade;" he replied, "We are sent to murder." Bin Nassur said, "The English are always killing people;" I replied, "Yes, but only slavers who do the deeds that were done yesterday.
~ David Livingstone
God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will.
~ Richard Baxter
I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.
~ J. G. Holland
I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
~ Bill Vaughan
Our Lord God shewed that a deed shall be done, and Himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin, and my sin shall not hinder His Goodness working.
~ Julian of Norwich
Every good deed is a glory to God.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The memory of a good deed lives.
~ Aesop
Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.
~ David Helvarg
A good deed hidden in silence dies.
~ Pindar
My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.
~ Alexander the Great
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
~ Amelia Earhart
You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.
~ Ameen Rihani
An ill deed cannot bring honor.
~ George Herbert
If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.
~ Pope Gregory I
The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.
~ Albert Schweitzer
When you want to make a beginning of a good deed, first prepare for temptations, which will come to you, and don't doubt the truth of that which you do for God.
~ Isaac of Nineveh
Whatever you do is your deed.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Let's return to our Excel spreadsheet. Imagine entering data about yourself in cell A1. In cell B1 you'll find the deed to your house, and in cell C1 is information about the buyer. Each cell is a block. Within each block is data. And the three blocks are linked together in a chain. A blockchain.I
~ Ric Edelman
Love, as all the good novels know, is a question of title, deed, and possession.
~ Richard Powers
No. Simplicity and justice require that thought and deed not be carelessly elided.
~ Richard Russo
Thou hast done a deed whereat valor will weep.
~ William Shakespeare