It is easy to understand that the best deed is well done: and so well as the best deed is done - the highest - so well is the least deed done; and all thing in its property and in the order that our Lord hath ordained it to from without beginning. For there is no doer but He.
Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but I told Mr. Coolidge when he dedicated this monument that this rock is being carved with a monument that will outlive our government.
Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.
If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.
A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.
An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.
It is not the deed we do Though the deed be never so fair, But the love that the dear Lord looketh for, Hidden with lovely care In the heart of the deed so fair.
Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.
The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.
Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.
Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism
The good deed you do today, for a brother or sister in need will come back to you some day, for humanity's a circle in deed.
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.