DEEDS DEEDS
L'injure se grave en me'tal; et le bienfait s'escrit en l'onde. An injury graves itself in metal, but a benefit writes itself in water. Jean Bertaut.
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Qui facit per alium facit per se.
Anything done for another is done for oneself.
Boniface VIII—Mavim. Sexti. Corp. Jur.
Bk. V. 12. Derived from Paulus—Digest.
Bk. I. 17. (Quod jessu alterius solvitur
pro eo est quasi ipsi solutum esset.}})
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| text = <poem>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. General Confession.
To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an
infamous history.
Sir Thomas Browne—Hydriotaphia. Ch. V.
'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but
what man Would do.
Robert Browning—Saul. XVIII.
For now the field is not far off
Where we must give the world a proof
Of deeds, not words.
Butler—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. Carney—Little Things. (Originally "make this pleasant earth below.
