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186 DEEDS

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

Longfellow—Norman Baron.

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.

Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton)—Lucile Pt. II. Canto V. St. 8.

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

Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. III. L. 336.

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

Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. VI. L. 282.

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

Milton—Samson Agonistes. L. 246.

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.

Sir Thomas More—Richard III and his miserable End.

(See also Beaumont)

Actis sevum implet, non segnibus annis.

He fills his lifetime with deeds, not with inactive years.

Ovid—Ad Liviam 449 Adapted probably

from Albinovanus Pedo, contemporary

poet with Ovid.

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Ipse decor, recti facti si prsemia desint,
Non movet.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid—Epistolce Ex Ponto II. 3. 13.

Di pia facta vident.

The gods see the deeds of the righteous.

Ovid—Fasti II. 117.

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

Ovid—Metamorphoses Sandy's trans.

Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.

The deeds of men never escape the gods.

Ovid—Tristium I. 2. 97.

Les belles actions cachees sont les plus estimables.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Pascal—Pensées I. LX. 21.

Dictis facta suppetant.

Let deeds correspond with words.

Plautus—Pseudolus Act I. 1.

(See also Beaumont)

DEEDS

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

"He wishes well" is worthless, unless the deed go with it.

Plautus—Trinummus II. 4. 38.

(See also Gibber)

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

Rabelais—Works Bk. W. Ch. XLLX.

(See also Cibber)

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

Schiller—The Walk

Wer gar zu viel bedenkt wird wenig leisten.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller—Wilhelm Tell III. 1.

Nemo beneficia in calendario scribit.

Nobody makes an entry of his good deeds in his day-book.

Seneca—De Beneficiis I. 2.

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.

All's Well That Ends Well Act II. Sc. 3. L. 132.

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

Coriolanvs Act II. Sc. 2. L. 130.

 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.

Cymbeline Act V. Sc. 5. L. 7.

 There shall be done
A deed of dreadful note.

Macbeth Act III. Sc. 2.

A deed without a name.

Macbeth Act IV. Sc. 1.

L. 43.

L.49.

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

Macbeth Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 146.

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

Macbeth Act V. Sc. 1. L. 79.

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

Merchant of Venice Act V. Sc. 1. L. 90.

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

Richard II Act V. Sc. 5. L. 115.