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Who doth right deeds
Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.
Author: Edwin Arnold
Source: Light of Asia (bk. VI, l. 78)
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Deeds, not words.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
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.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
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.]
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
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.
Author: Bidpai (Pilpay)
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.]
Author: Pope Boniface VIII
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.
Author: Book of Common Prayer
Source: General Confession
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To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: Hydriotaphia (ch. V)
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'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.
Author: Robert Browning
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.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
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.
Author: Julia A. Fletcher Carney
Source: Little Things, a version in later compilations
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Men pass away, but their deeds abide.
Author: Augustin-Louis Cauchy
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.
Author: George Chapman
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.
Author: George Chapman
Source: Bussy d'Ambois (act I, sc. 1)
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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Author: Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield
Source: Letters
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The will for the deed.
Author: Colley Cibber
Source: The Rival Fools (act III)
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His deeds do not agree with his words.
[Lat., Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Finibus (bk. II, 30)
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This is the Thing that I was born to do.
Author: Samuel Daniel
Source: Musophilus (st. 100)
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Deeds are males, words females are.
Author: Sir John Davies
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?"
Author: Robert Davies
Source: My Lord and I
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Thy Will for Deed I do accept.
Author: Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
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.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
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.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: Motto to Middlemarch (ch. LXX)
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Things of today?
Deeds which are harvest for Eternity!
Author: Ebenezer Elliott ("The Corn Law Rhymer")
Source: Hymn (l. 22)
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Go put your creed into your deed,
Not speak with double tongue.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Ode--Concord
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