Deeds

Famous quotes containing the word deeds:

“Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

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

“How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes deeds ill done!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)