"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Thy Will for Deed I do accept."

"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?"

"Deeds are males, words females are."

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

"Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant."

"The will for the deed."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"Qui facit per alium facit per se."

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

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

"You must take the will for the deed."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"A deed without a name."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Les belles actions cachées sont les plus estimables."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."