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No good deed goes unpunished. - Clare Boothe Luce 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. - Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton ("Owen Meredith"), Lucile (pt. II, canto V, st. 8) Deeds survive the doers. - Horace Mann See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 336) Nor think thou with wind Of aery threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 282) I on the other side Us'd no ambition to comment my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer. - John Milton, Samson Agonistes (l. 246) Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed. - Lewis Mumford Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we must be saved by love. - Reinhold Niebuhr He fills his lifetime with deeds, not with inactive years. [Lat., Actis aevum implet, non segnibus annis.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Ad Liviam (449) Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward. [Lat., Ipse decor, recti facti si praemia desint, Non movet.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Epistoloe Ex Ponto (II, 3, 13) The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [Lat., Di pia facta vident.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Fasti (II, 117) The deed I intend is great, But what, as yet, I know not. - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses, (Sandy's translation) The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Tristium (I, 2, 97) Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. - Blaise Pascal, Pensee (I, IX, 21) Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen. - William Penn Let deeds correspond with words. [Lat., Dictis facta suppetant.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Pseudolus (act I, 1) "He wishes well" is worthless, unless the deed go with it. [Lat., Nequam illud verbum est, Bene vult, nisi qui benefacit.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Trinummus (II, 4, 38) We'll take the good-will for the deed. - Francois Rabelais, Works (bk. IV, ch. XLIX) A mighty deed is like the Heaven's thunder, That wakes the nation's slumberers from their rest. - Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach (used pseudonym Emil Leutner) Your deeds are known, In words that kindle glory from the stone. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Walk He who considers too much will perform little. [Ger., Wer gar zu viel bedenkt wird wenig leisten.] - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Wilhelm Tell (III, 1) Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it. - Elias Schwartz Nobody makes an entry of his good deeds in his day-book. [Lat., Nemo beneficia in calendario scribit.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), De Beneficiis (I, 2) Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. - William Shakespeare 'Tis deeds must win the prize. - William Shakespeare Displaying page 3 of 4 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4
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