Deeds

"Good deeds remain good, no matter whether we know how the world was made or not. Vile deeds are vile, no matter whether we know or do not know what, after death, will be the fate of the doer."

"All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble."

"For now the field is not far off Where we must give the world a proof Of deeds, not words."

"Your great deeds are unparallelled, your magnificence is praised! Young woman, Inana, your praise is sweet!"

"Deeds, not words."

"That swarm of ants that I observed, each one following the one ahead, have every one been Indra in the world of the gods by virtue of their own past action. And now, by virtue of their deeds done in the past, they have gradually fallen to the state of ants."

"We are our own fates. Our own deeds Are our doomsmen. Man's life was made Not for men's creeds, But men's actions."

"See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing."

"Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not."

"I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer."

"Les belles actions cachées sont les plus estimables."

"From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, The place is dignified by the doer's deed: Where great additions swell's and virtue none, It is a dropsied honour. Good alone Is good without a name."

"He covets less Than misery itself would give; rewards His deeds with doing them, and is content To spend the time to end it."

"I never saw Such noble fury in so poor a thing; Such precious deeds in one that promis'd nought But beggary and poor looks."

"There shall be done A deed of dreadful note."

"A deed without a name."

"The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it."

"Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets."

"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."

"O, would the deed were good! For now the devil, that told me I did well, Says that this deed is chronicled in hell."

"They look into the beauty of thy mind, And that, in guess, they measure by thy deeds."

"I give thee thanks in part of thy deserts, And will with deeds requite thy gentleness."

"Go in, and cheer the town; we'll forth and fight; Do deeds worth praise and tell you them at night."

"One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages."

"You must take the will for the deed."

"Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile."

"L'injure se grave en métal; et le bienfait s'escrit en l'onde."

"Qui facit per alium facit per se."

"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."

"To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history."

"'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do."

"Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above."

"His deedes inimitable, like the Sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts."

"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."

"Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well."

"The will for the deed."

"Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant."

"This is the Thing that I was born to do."

"Deeds are males, words females are."

"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?"

"Thy Will for Deed I do accept."

"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."

"Our deeds still travel with us from afar. And what we have been makes us what we are."

"Things of to-day? Deeds which are harvest for Eternity!"

"Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue."

"Did nothing in particular, And did it very well."

"Und künftige Thaten drangen wie die Sterne Rings um uns her unzählig aus der Nacht."

"For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placèd by their deeds."

"If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains."

"My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time."

"Oh! 'tis easy To beget great deeds; but in the rearing of them— The threading in cold blood each mean detail, And furze brake of half-pertinent circumstance— There lies the self-denial."

"When a man dies they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him."

"But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust."

"For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good tourne we write it in duste."

"Actis ævum implet, non segnibus annis."

"Ipse decor, recti facti si præmia desint, Non movet."

"Di pia facta vident."

"The deed I intend is great, But what, as yet, I know not."

"Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt."

"Dictis facta suppetant."

"Nequam illud verbum est, Bene vult, nisi qui benefacit."

"We'll take the good-will for the deed."

"Your deeds are known, In words that kindle glory from the stone."

"Wer gar zu viel bedenkt wird wenig leisten."

"Nemo beneficia in calendario scribit."

"You do the deeds, And your ungodly deeds find me the words."