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All your better deeds
Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.—BEAUMONT & FLETCHER, Philaster
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He who has suffer'd you to impose on him, knows you.—BLAKE, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.—LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters
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If thou wouldst not be known to do anything, never do it.—EMERSON, Essays
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I am only one,
But still I am one,
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.—EDWARD E. HALE
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Let not the things that you have not accomplished discourage you. It is what you have done that counts.—CARDINAL HAYES
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Do noble things, not dream them, all day long;
And so make life, death, and that vast forever
One grand sweet song.—CHARLES KINGSLEY, A Farewell
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Deeds, not words.—JOHN FLETCHER, The Lover's Progress
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Let us do or die.—JOHN FLETCHER, The Island Princess
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His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.—GOLDSMITH, Retaliation
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The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.—LINCOLN Gettysburg' Address
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Something attempted something done,
Has earned a night's repose.—LONGFELLOW, The Village Blacksmith
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Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.—LONGFELLOW, A Psalm of Life
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Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do
What then thou would'st.—MILTON, Samson Agonistes
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Every noble deed dieth, if supressed in silence.—PINDAR, Eulogy on Alexander, Son of Amyntas
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Deeds are fruits, words are leaves.—Proverb
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Whatever's worth doing is worth doing well.—Proverb
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It is vain to use words when deeds are expected.—Proverb
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To do two things at once is to do neither.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
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How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done!—SHAKESPEARE, King John
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The attempt and not the deed Confounds us.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
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If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
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If to do were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
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One good deed, dying tongueless,
Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.—SHAKESPEARE, The Winter's Tale
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'Tis strange what a man may do and a woman yet think him an angel.—THACKERAY, Henry Esmond
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Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you an' do it fust.—E. N. WESTCOTT, David Haruni
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Long, long are the shadows cast by our deeds . . . and when we are thought to be still in Weimar, we are already in Erfurt.—ARNOLD ZWEIG, The Crowning of a King
