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DEBATE --- DEBT --- DECISIONS
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
DEDICATION --- DEEDS

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DEBATE

see "COMMUNICATION" for related links


Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow, — whether
raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle, — is your
grandest of levellers. The man who would be always
superior should be always apathetic.
--Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803—1873)
British novelist and politician.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and
sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
--Edmund Burke (1729—1797)
Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters.
_Reflections on the Revolution in France_ [1790]

When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak
defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is
less injurious than a bad reply.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.

In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy
antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus
thou wilt fight him in his own country.
--Henry Fielding (1707—1754)
English novelist and dramatist.

There is no way of proving your point to someone
whose income or position depends on believing
the contrary.
--Sydney J. Harris (1917—1986)
American journalist.
_Pieces of Eight_ [1982]

No matter what side of the argument you are
on, you always find people on your side that
you wish were on the other.
--Jascha Heifetz (1901—1987)
Russian-born American violinist.

If you can't answer a man's argument, all is
not lost; you can still call him vile names.
--Elbert Hubbard (1859—1915)
American editor, publisher, and author who
died in the sinking of the "Lusitania."

The...propagandist must...be consistently dogmatic. All his statements
are made without qualification, everything is either diabolically black
or celestially white...He must never admit that he might be wrong or
that people with a different point of view might be even partially right.
Opponents should not be argued with; they should be attacked,
shouted down, or...liquidated.
--Aldous Huxley (1894—1963)
English novelist {grandson of T.H. Huxley}.
_Brave New World Revisited_ [1958]

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A man heated in talk, and eager of victory, takes
advantage of the mistakes or ignorance of his adversary,
lays hold of concessions to which he has no right, and
urges proofs likely to prevail on his opponent, though
he knows himself that they have no force.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
Adventurer #85


To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence,
is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet
acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of
guilt.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.

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Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.
--Lebanese proverb

We do not talk — we bludgeon one another with facts and
theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers,
magazines and digests.
--Henry Miller (1891—1980)
American novelist and essayist.
_The Air-Conditioned Nightmare_ [1945]

The fair way of conducting a dispute is to exhibit,
one by one, the arguments of your opponent, and,
with each argument, the precise and specific
answer you are able to make to it.
--William Paley (1743—1805)
English theologian and philosopher.

142. Nothing does Reason more Right, than the _Coolness_ of
those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the _Heat_
of its Defenders, than from the Arguments of its Opposers.
--William Penn (1644—1718)
Quaker leader and advocate of religious
freedom who oversaw the founding of
the American Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers
and other religious minorities of Europe (E.B..)
_Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims_ [1682]
[_italics_ by Penn]

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it
do singe yourself.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.

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cogent KOH-juhnt, adjective:
Having the power to compel conviction; appealing
to the mind or to reason; convincing.

debunk (verb)
To expose or ridicule the falseness, sham, or exaggerated claims of.
Synonyms: expose

descant [DES-kant], (noun)
To comment freely; to discourse at length.
Ex.: When they start on one of their polarised descants,
whether on state education, water rates, crime, the BBC
or whatever, they sound like a bumble bee and a wasp
fighting in a jam jar.
--Gillian Reynolds, "The biggest things to hit radio,"
"Daily Telegraph" [14 May 1999]

diaphanous [adj. dy-AF-uh-nus]
So delicate as to be transparent or translucent,
or it is airy, insubstantial, vague, or ethereal.

equivocate (verb)
To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order
to mislead or withhold information.
Synonyms: prevaricate, beat around the bush,
palter, tergiversate

non sequitur (adjective) [nahn 'se-kwi-tκr]
Literally, not following (logically), illogical, not connected
to anything previously said or (as a noun) a statement not
following logically from what was previously said.
It originates in logic, where it refers to an inference not
following from the premise.

polemic (noun) [pκ-'lem-ik]
1. The art of debate and argumentation.
2. A passionate defense or refutation of an argument.

sophistry (noun)
A subtle, deceptive method of reasoning
or arguing, involving statements that
sound plausible but are actually false
or fallacious.
Similar: untruth, deception, fallacy,
subterfuge, speciousness

tendentious (adjective) [ten-'den-chκs]
Exhibiting a strong tendency or point of view,
overbearingly didactic or partisan.
Note: Not to be confused with "tendential" which
means simply "relating to a tendency." "Tendential
ideas" are those with a decided point of view but
not an overbearing one. "Tendentious ideas" so
strongly support a tendency as to become repulsive.

trenchant [TREN-chunt], adjective:
1. Characterized by or full of force and vigor;
2. Caustic; biting; severe;
3. Distinct; clear-cut; clearly or sharply defined.



DEBT

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see "MONEY" for related links


Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
--Aneurin Bevan (1897—1960)
British Labour politician.
In Michael Foot _Aneurin Bevan_ [1962], vol. 1, ch. 3.

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower
is servant to the lender.
--Bible
"Proverbs" 22:7

Dreading that climax of all human ills,
The inflammation of his weekly bills.
--Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824)
English Romantic poet and satirist.
_Don Juan_ [1819—1824]

A man who owes a little can clear it off in a very little time,
and, if he is a prudent man, will; whereas a man, who by
long negligence, owes a great deal, despairs of ever being
able to pay, and therefore never looks into his accounts
at all.
--Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773)
British writer and politician.
In John Timbs
_The best words of the best authors_, p. 93 [1829].

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor
in the country as an extended system of taxation and a
great national debt.
--William Cobbett (1763—1835)
English politician, agriculturist, and journalist.
Letter [10 February 1804].

A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but
if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will
be sunk by that very weight which was intended
for her preservation.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words;
Addressed to Those Who Think_, p. 92 [1820]

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As a 16th-century English judge declared, "If a debtor can't feed and clothe himself, let him die, in the name of God, if he will and impute the cause of it to his own fault, for his presumption and ill behavior brought him to that imprisonment."

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Indeed, when some large speculative financial schemes collapsed after the Revolutionary War, many wealthy men were suddenly bankrupt. One of them, Robert Morris, who had signed the Declaration of Independence and provided critical financing for the war, lost his fortune speculating on land. Sentenced to debtors' prison in Philadelphia in 1798, Morris rented the best room in the jail and outfitted it with a settee, writing desks, a bed, a trunk of clothes and other comforts of home.
However lavishly they could outfit their prison cells, though, rich and poor faced the same dim future. There was no way an insolvent could get a fresh start -- the "holy grail of debt relief," as Mr. Mann put it. In prison or out, debtors were expected to repay every penny they owed their creditors, even if it took them the rest of their lives.

--Cynthia Crossen
"Early Debtors Faced Jail at Own Expense Until All Was Repaid"
_Wall Street Journal_ [30 January 2006]

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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may
almost be said to be living apart.
--E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894—1962)
American poet.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six,
result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure
twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
_David Copperfield_ [1849]

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?
Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
"Suum Cuique" in
_May-Day and Other Pieces_ [1867].

If there is anyone listening to whom I owe money,
I'm prepared to forget if you are.
--Errol Flynn (1909—1959)
Tasmanian-born motion-picture actor.
(Spoken jovially in a radio broadcast
to Australia where he had accumulated
a number of debts before leaving for
Hollywood in the 1930s.)

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.


To the generous mind the heaviest debt is
that of gratitude, when it is not in our power
to repay it.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.


Rather go to Bed supperless than rise in Debt.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1758]

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A national debt, if it is not excessive,
will be to us a national blessing.
--Alexander Hamilton (1755or57—1804)
New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention,
major author of the _Federalist Papers_, and first
secretary of the Treasury of the United States [1789-1795].
Letter to Robert Morris.

To rob Peter and pay Paul.
--John Heywood (1497—1580)
English playwright.
_Proverbs_ [1546]

There can be no freedom or beauty about
a home life that depends on borrowing and
debt.
--Henrik Ibsen (1828—1906)
Norwegian playwright.
_A Doll's House_ [1879], Act I

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What is to hinder them [government officials] from
creating a perpetual debt? The laws of nature, I
answer. The earth belongs to the living, not to
the dead. The will and power of man expire with
his life, by nature's law. . . .We may consider each
generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by
the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but
none to bind the succeeding generation, more
than the inhabitants of another country.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
Letter to John W. Eppes [24 June 1813].


I sincerely believe. . . that banking establishments
are more dangerous than standing armies, and that
the principle of spending money to be paid by
posterity, under the name of funding, is but
swindling futurity on a large scale.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
Letter to John Taylor [28 May 1816].

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It must be eight years since I last saw ___. How
pleasant it would be to meet his jovial face again,
to clasp his strong hand, and to hear his cheery
laugh once more! He owes me fourteen shillings,
too.
--Jerome K Jerome (1859—1927)
English novelist and playwright.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt
only as an inconvenience; you will find it
a calamity.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.

For of those to whom much
is given, much is required.
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917—1963)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961—1963].

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Detlev von Liliencron (1844—1909)
German lyric poet and novelist.

Liliencron was often in dire financial straits.
One of his creditors stopped him in the street
and demanded payment. 'Sorry, but I have no
money, said Liliencron. 'Please be patient.'

'But that's what you said four weeks ago.'

'Well,' said Liliencron triumphantly, haven't
I kept my word?'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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Debts are nowadays like children begot
with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
--Jean Moliθre [Jean Baptiste Poquelin]
(1622—1673) French comic dramatist.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing
and the mightiest to undermine governments and
corrupt the people.
--Wendell Phillips (1811—1884)
American abolitionist and reformer.

A small loan makes a debtor, a great one,
an enemy.
--Publilius Syrus (85—43 B.C.)
Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave.
_Moral Sayings_, 12

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
--Franηois Rabelais (c. 1494—c. 1553]
French humanist, satirist, and physician.
_Gargantua and Pantagruel_ bk. III, ch. V [1548].

Any government, like any family, can for a year
spend a little more than it earns. But you and
I know that a continuance of that habit means
the poorhouse.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882—1945)
American Democratic statesman and President [1933—1945].
In a radio speech [30 July 1932].

All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and
those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples'.
--Saki [Hector Hugh Munro] (1870—1916)
Scottish writer.
_Chronicles of Clover_ [1911]

He will give the devil his due.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Henry IV_ [1597]

What can be added to the happiness of the man
who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a
clear conscience?
--Adam Smith (1723—1790)
Scottish economist.
_The Theory of Moral Sentiments_ [1759]

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperment
and not of income.
--Logan Pearsall Smith (1865—1946)
American-born man of letters.
_Afterthoughts_ [1931]

You load sixteen tons, and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go,
I owe my soul to the company sto'.
--Merle Travis (1917—1983)
American country singer and songwriter.
"Sixteen Tons" [1947 song]

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime, if
not asked to lend money.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
"Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar"
_Pudd'nhead Wilson_ [1894]

Let us all be happy and live within our
means, even if we have to borrow the
money to do it with.
--Artemus Ward [Charles Farrar Browne] (1834—1867)
American humorist and writer.
_Natural History_

One must have some sort of occupation nowadays.
If I hadn't my debts I should have nothing to
think about.
--Oscar Wilde (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.
_A Woman of No Importance_ [1893]

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We oppose cancellation of the debts owing
to the United States by foreign nations.
--Plank in the Democratic Party national platform [1932]

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amortize (verb) ['ζ-mor-tIz]
(1) To pay off a debt such as a mortgage by installment payments;
(2) to deduct the cost of business equipment or other permanent
investment from company taxes over a series of taxable periods.

vigorish (noun) [ 'vi-gκ-rish] Listen
Usurious interest paid to a money-lender or a book-
maker's usual commission on an illegal bet.



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DECISIONS

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see: "CHOICES"
see: "INDECISION"
see: "INDIFFERENCE"
see: "JUDGEMENT"
see "ACTIONS" for other related links


Make haste slowly.
--Augustus [Gaius Octavius] (63 B.C.—14 A.D.)
The first Roman emperor.
In _Lives of the Caesars_ [c.121]
by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.

Once the what has been decided, the how always
follows. We must not make the how an excuse for
not facing and accepting the what.
--Pearl S. Buck (1892—1973)
American author noted for her novels of life in China;
winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature.
_To My Daughters, With Love_ [1967]

Look before you leap.
--John Clarke (1596—1658)
Comp. _Proverbs: English and Latine_ [1639], p. 266

I leave this rule for others when I'm dead,
Be always sure you're right—then go ahead.
--David Crockett (1786—1836)
American folk hero who died at the Alamo.
_Autobiography_ [1834]

For a few brief days the orchards are white with blossoms.
They soon turn to fruit, or float away, useless and wasted,
upon the idle breeze. So will it be with present feelings. They
must be deepened into decision, or be entirely dissipated by
delay.
--Theodore Ledyard Cuyler, D.D. (1822—1909)
American clergyman.
In _Pennsylvania School Journal_
[Published in 1889 by the Pennsylvania State Education Association.]

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy
who'll decide where to go.
--Theodor Seuss Geisel [Dr. Seuss] (1904—1991)
American writer and illustrator of children's books.
"Oh, the Places You'll Go!"

I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right,
do it boldly; if it be wrong, leave it undone.
--Bernard Gilpin (1517—1583)
English theologian.

As a young boy, when you get splashed by a mud puddle
on the way to school, you wonder if you should go home
and change, but be late for school, or go to school the
way you are; dirty and soaking wet. Well, while he tried
to decide, I drove by and splashed him again.
--Jack Handey (1949— )
American comedian and comedy writer.

There is nothing more to be esteemed than a
manly firmness and decision of character. I
like a person who knows his own mind and
sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be
done in given circumstances and does it.
--William Hazlitt (1778—1830)
English essayist.

Two heads are better than one.
--John Heywood (1497—1580)
English playwright.
_Proverbs_ [1546]

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take
the consequences. No good is ever done in
this world by hesitation.
--T.H. (Thomas Henry) Huxley (1825—1895)
English biologist {grandfather of Aldous Huxley}.
_Aphorisms and Reflections_
Selected by Henrietta A. Huxley [1907].

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When once a decision is reached and execution is the
order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility
and care about the outcome.
--William James (1842—1910)
American philosopher.


When you have to make a choice and
don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
--William James (1842—1910)
American philosopher.
In _The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations_
{comp. by Martin H. Manser}, p. 35 [2001].

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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.
--James Russell Lowell (1819—1891)
American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be
highly intelligent and well-informed just to be
undecided about them.
--Laurence J. Peter (1919—1990)
Canadian teacher and author.

Advise well before you begin; and when
you have decided, act promptly.
--Sallust [Gaius Sallustius Crispus] (c. 86BC—35/34 BC)
Roman historian.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never
make a negative decision in the low time. Never
make your most important decisions when you are
in your worst mood. Wait. Be patient. The storm
will pass. The spring will come.
--Robert H. Schuller (1926— )
American televangelist.

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Romeo and Juliet_ [1595-1596], act II, scene iii

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
--Sophocles (496?—406 B.C.)
Greek dramatist.

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abulia, also aboulia [uh-BOO-lee-uh; uh-BYOO-], noun:
Loss or impairment of the ability to act or to make decisions.
Ex.: I was suffering from an aboulia, you know.
I couldn't seem to make decisions.
--Anatole Broyard, "Reading and Writing; (Enter Pound and Eliot),"
_New York Times_, [30 May 1982]



DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

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see "FREEDOM" for related links


We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall
all hang separately.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
At the signing of the _Declaration of Independence_ [4 July 1776].

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When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary
for one people to dissolve the political bands which have
connected them with another and to assume among the
powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to
which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle
them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind
requires that they should declare the causes which
impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to
secure these rights, Governments are instituted among
Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed, — That whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the
People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
Government, laying its foundation on such principles
and organizing its powers in such form, as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and
Happiness.

--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
"Declaration of Independence" [4 July 1776]

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If the American Revolution had produced nothing but
the Declaration of Independence, it would have been
worth while.... The beauty and cogency of the
preamble, reaching back to remotest antiquity and
forward so an indefinite future, have lifted the
hearts of millions of men and will continue to do.
...These words are more revolutionary than anything
written by Robespierre, Marx, or Lenin, more
explosive than the atom, a continual challenge
to ourselves as well as an inspiration to the
oppressed of all the world.
--Samuel Eliot Morison (1887—1976)
American historian, author and winner
of two Pulitzer Prizes.
_The Oxford History of the American People_ [1965], ch. 14



DEDICATION

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see "FRIENDS / FRIENDSHIP" for related links
see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for related links
see "SUCCESS" for related links


I admire my colleagues who show courage in the face
of personal tragedy instead of crawling away in
self-pity. I applaud loudly Christopher Reeve,
Michael J. Fox, Dudley Moore, and so many others who
use their celebrity to bring light to the darkness.
To help others is the will of God. To them I
dedicate this book.
--Kirk Douglas [Issur Danielovitch] (1916— )
American film actor and producer.
_My Stroke of Luck_ [2002], "Acknowledgments"

Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
--Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777—1855)
German mathematician and scientist.
(Working, and informed that his wife is dying.)

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Not snow, no, nor rain, nor night keeps them
from accomplishing their appointed courses
with all speed.
--Herodotus (484—c.425 BC)
Greek author of the first great narrative
history produced in the ancient world.
_The Histories of Herodotus_ bk. VIII, ch. 98

& note:

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night
stays these couriers from the swift completion of
their appointed rounds.
--Inscription on New York City Post Office.

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Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect
people to roll stones out of his way, but must
accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few
more upon it.
--Albert Schweitzer (1875—1965)
Franco-German theologian, philosopher, and mission doctor.

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votary [VOH-tuh-ree], noun:
1. One who is devoted, given, or addicted to some particular
pursuit, subject, study, or way of life.
2. A devoted admirer.
3. A devout adherent of a religion or cult.
4. A dedicated believer or advocate.



DEEDS

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see: "ACCOMPLISHMENT"
see: "ACHIEVEMENT"
see "ACTIONS" for other related links


One improper word or act will neutralize the effect of many
good ones; and one base deed, after years of noble service,
will cover them all with shame.
--James H. Aughey (1828—1911)
American clergyman.

Deeds, not words.
--Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher
_Lover's Progress_, act III, sc. 6

Men do less than they ought, unless
they do all that they can.
--Thomas Carlyle (1795—1881)
Scottish historian and political philosopher.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
--Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773)
British writer and politician.

His deeds do not agree with his words.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC)
Roman orator and statesman.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar.
And what we have been makes us what we are.
--George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819—1880)
English novelist.
_Middlemarch_ [1871-1872]

Let us resolve to do the best
we can with what we've got.
--William Feather (1889—1981)
American author and publisher.

Well done is better than well said.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.

But this we know: good deeds are never
childless. A noble life is never lost.
--Robert Green Ingersoll (1833—1899)
American politician and orator know as "the great agnostic."

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what
he has done, compared to what he might have done.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791].

No good deed goes unpunished.
--Clare Boothe Luce (1903—1987)
American playwright and politician.

Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit,
and you reap a character. Sow a character, and
you reap a destiny.
--Charles Reade (1814—1884)
English novelist and playwright.

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Unnatural deeds
Do breed unnatural troubles. Infected minds
To their deaf pillow will discharge their secrets.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Macbeth_ [1606]


Look what is done cannot be now amended:
Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes,
Which after-hours gives leisure to repent.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_King Richard III_ [c. 1592—1593]

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Always do right. This will gratify some people,
and astonish the rest.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
In a talk to young people, Brooklyn, N.Y. [16 February 1901].

But with every deed you are sowing a seed,
Though the harvest you may never see.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850—1919)
American author and poet.
"You Never Can Tell"
In _Custer And Other Poems_ [1896]


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