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

Deeds, not words.

All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.

An injury graves itself in metal, but a benefit writes itself in water.

We ought to do our neighbour all the good we can. If you do good, good will be done to you; but if you do evil, the same will be measured back to you again.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

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.

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

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

For now the field is not far off Where we must give the world a proof Of deeds, not words.

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

Men pass away, but their deeds abide.

His deeds inimitable, like the Sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts.

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.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

The will for the deed.

His deeds do not agree with his words.

This is the Thing that I was born to do.

Deeds are males, words females are.

"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?"