do one good

Ferrera: When I started out I had this assumption that you do one good thing and then Scorsese, he’s knocking on your door, the directors are going to come.

In a 2022 Cosmopolitan interview, Moon Bin was asked what he would do if he were an angel who could do one good thing.

“These are the sights, Harriet, to do one good. How trifling they make every thing else appear!—I feel now as if I could think of nothing but these poor creatures all the rest of the day; and yet, who can say how soon it may all vanish from my mind?”

“If you do one good thing, I will follow you for a long, long time,” he said.

He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.