Deeds

Famous quotes containing the word deeds:

“Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men’s deeds and not our thoughts. What are the convulsions of a planet, compared with the emotions of the soul? or the rising of a thousand suns, if that is not enlightened by a ray?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Good deeds always run into trouble.”
—Chinese proverb.