| 25 Deeds Quotes
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“Who doth right deeds
Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.”
Edwin Arnold Quotes Source: Light of Asia (bk. VI, l. 78)
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“Deeds, not words.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes Source: Lover's Progress (act III, sc. 6)
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“All your better deeds
Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes Source: Philaster (act V, sc. 3)
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“An injury graves itself in metal, but a benefit writes itself in
water.
[Fr., L'injure se grave en metal; et le bienfait s'escrit en
l'onde.]”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes Source: Philaster (act V, sc. 3)
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“We ought to do our neighbour all the good we can. If you do
good, good will be done to you; but if you do evil, the same will
be measured back to you again.”
Bidpai (Pilpay) Quotes Source: Dabschelim and Pilpay (chap. i)
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“Anything done for another is done for oneself.
[Lat., Qui facit per alium facit per se.]”
Pope Boniface VIII Quotes Source: Maxim--Sexti--Corp. Jur. (bk. V, 12)
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“We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and
we have done those things which we ought not to have done.”
Book of Common Prayer Quotes Source: General Confession
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“To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history.”
Sir Thomas Browne Quotes Source: Hydriotaphia (ch. V)
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“'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.”
Robert Browning Quotes Source: Saul (XVIII)
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“For now the field is not far off
Where we must give the world a proof
Of deeds, not words.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 867)
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“Little deeds of kindness, little words of love,
Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above.”
Julia A. Fletcher Carney Quotes Source: Little Things, a version in later compilations
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“Men pass away, but their deeds abide.”
Augustin-Louis Cauchy Quotes Source: his last words, "Mathematical Circles Revisited" by H. Eves
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“His deeds inimitable, like the Sea
That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts
Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts.”
George Chapman Quotes Source: Bussy d'Ambois (act I, sc. 1)
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“So our lives
In acts exemplarie, not only winne
Ourselves good Names, but doth to others give
Matter for virtuous Deedes, by which wee live.”
George Chapman Quotes Source: Bussy d'Ambois (act I, sc. 1)
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“Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.”
Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield Quotes Source: Letters
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“The will for the deed.”
Colley Cibber Quotes Source: The Rival Fools (act III)
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“His deeds do not agree with his words.
[Lat., Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Finibus (bk. II, 30)
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“This is the Thing that I was born to do.”
Samuel Daniel Quotes Source: Musophilus (st. 100)
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“Deeds are males, words females are.”
Sir John Davies Quotes Source: Scene of Folly (p. 147)
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“"I worked for men," my Lord will say,
When we meet at the end of the King's highway;
"I walked with the beggar along the road,
I kissed the bondsman stung by the goad,
I bore my half of the porter's load.
And what did you do," my Lord will say,
"As you traveled along the King's highway?"”
Robert Davies Quotes Source: My Lord and I
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“Thy Will for Deed I do accept.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Quotes Source: Divine Weekes and Workes (second week, third day, pt. II)
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“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes Source: Adam Bede (ch. XXIX)
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“Our deeds still travel with us from afar.
And what we have been makes us what we are.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes Source: Motto to Middlemarch (ch. LXX)
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“Things of today?
Deeds which are harvest for Eternity!”
Ebenezer Elliott ("The Corn Law Rhymer") Quotes Source: Hymn (l. 22)
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“Go put your creed into your deed,
Not speak with double tongue.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Ode--Concord
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