"Man of deeds" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and gain, if possible, admittance there. The enterprise was a delicate one. But a man of passion,—a man whose life had been, so to speak, a series of poems in action, who had lived romances instead of writing them; above all a man of deeds,—might well be tempted by a project apparently so impossible. To open for himself legally the gates of a convent of women! The Pope and the Metropolitan Archbishop would scarcely sanction it. ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various |
