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 . . . (ON) DOING GOOD see: "ACTIONS" see "KINDNESS" for other related links We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know. --W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907—1973) English-born poet and man of letters. Anything that is worth doing at all is worth doing well. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773) British writer and politician. Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC) Roman orator and statesman. As for me, I'd rather be right than be President. --Henry Clay (1777—1852) American politician. [14 February 1850] regarding the Compromise of 1850; in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 577. Cohan & Major add: When in 1890 Representative William M. Springer invoked the by then classic words of Clay, he was told by the speaker of the House, Thomas Brackett Reed: 'Well, the gentleman need not be disturbed. He will never be either.' Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. --Jonathan Edwards (1703—1758) American philosopher and preacher. When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough: I've done my duty, and I've done no more. --Henry Fielding (1707—1754) English novelist and dramatist. _The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great_, act I, sc. 3 [1731] I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. --Edward Everett Hale (1822—1909) American clergyman, writer, and chaplain of the Senate. 'Lend a Hand', in ed. James Dalton Morrison, _Masterpieces of Religious Verse_ [1948]. Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a woman unredressed on earth, or a man or woman left to say, I will redress that wrong, or spend my life in the attempt. --Charles Kingsley (1819—1875) English writer and clergyman. _From Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life_ [1879], vol. II, ch. 28 He is good that does good to others. If he suffers for the good he does, he is better still; and if he suffers from them to whom he did good, he is arrived to that height of goodness that nothing but an increase of his sufferings can add to it; if it proves his death, his virtue is at its summit — it is heroism complete. --Jean de La Bruyère (1645—1696) French essayist and moralist. - When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. --Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865) American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865]. The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. --Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865) American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865]. - Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. --Alexander Pope (1688—1744) English poet. _Imitations of Horace_ [1738] Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. --Pythagoras (582—486 B.C.) Ionian mathematician and philosopher. He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence, but in the very act; for the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC—65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. People are unreasonable, illogical, and self- centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway. --Mother Teresa (1910—1997) Roman Catholic nun and missionary. 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]. Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can. --John Wesley (1703—1791) English preacher and founder, with his brother Charles, of the Methodist movement in the Church of England. ----- altruism (noun) ['æl-tru-iz-êm] The impulse to help others, ignoring oneself; doing good without selfish motivation. beneficence (noun): 1. The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity. 2. A charitable gift or act. Ex.: Lord Jeffrey told Dickens that it [A Christmas Carol] had "prompted more positive acts of beneficence than can be traced to all the pulpits and confessionals in Christendom since Christmas 1842. in Roger Highfield _The Physics of Christmas_  ;void(0)) (ON) DOING NOTHING . . see "INDIFFERENCE" for related links - The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. --Edmund Burke (1729—1797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. --Edmund Burke (1729—1797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. - There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice. --Grover Cleveland (1837—1908) 22nd [1885-1889] and 24th [1893—1897] President of the U.S.. Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing. --Noël Coward (1899—1973) English playwright, actor, and composer. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them. --Frederick Douglass [Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey] (c.1818—1895) American abolitionist, reformer, and writer. The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. --Albert Einstein (1879—1955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. --Paulo Freire (1921—1997) Brazilian educator. They will do whatever we let them get away with. --Joseph Heller (1923—1999) American novelist. Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. --Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826) American statesman and president [1801—1809]. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929—1968) American civil rights leader. That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing. --Pliny the Younger or Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (62—c.115) Roman senator and author of a famous collection of letters. _Letters_ bk. 8, letter 9 We who have a Voice must be a Voice for the Voiceless! --Oscar Romero (Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Goldámez ) (1917—1980) Roman Catholic priest and Archbishop in El Salvador. My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt. --Anna Sewell (1820—1878) English author. When you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. --Bishop Desmond Tutu (1931— ) South African cleric and winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize. . . see "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links "Dolls," by Robert William Service (1874—1958) British poet. She said: “I am too old to play With dolls,” and put them all away, Into a box, one rainy day. I think she must have felt some pain, She looked so long into the rain, Then sighed: “I’ll bring you out again; “For I’ll have little children too, With sunny hair and eyes of blue And they will play and play with you. “And now good-bye, my pretty dears; There in the dark for years and years, Dream of your little mother’s tears.” Eglantine, Pierrot and Marie Claire, Topsy and Tiny and Teddy Bear, Side by side in the coffer there. Time went by; one day she kneeled By a wooden Cross in Flanders Field, And wept for the One the earth concealed; And made a vow she would never wed, But always be true to the deathless dead, Until the span of her life be sped. ........ More years went on and they made her wise By sickness and pain and sacrifice, With greying tresses and tired eyes. And then one evening of weary rain, She opened the old oak box again, And her heart was clutched with an ancient pain For there in the quiet dark they lay, Just as they were when she put them away… O but it seemed like yesterday! Topsy and Tiny and Teddy Bear, Eglantine, Pierrot and Marie Claire, Ever so hopefully waiting there. But she looked at them through her blinding tears, And she said: “You’ve been patient, my pretty dears; You’ve waited and waited all these years. “I’ve broken a promise I made so true; But my heart, my darlings, is broken too: No little Mothers have I for you. “My hands are withered, my hair is grey; Yet just for a moment I’ll try to play With you as I did that long dead day… “Ah no, I cannot. I try in vain… I stare and I stare into the rain… I’ll put you back in your box again. “Bless you, darlings, perhaps one day, Some little Mother will find you and play, And once again you’ll be glad and gay. “But when in the friendly dark I lie, No one will ever love you as I… My little children… good-bye… good-bye.” . . see: "AGNOSTICS" see: "CERTAINTY" see: "DISTRUST" see: "QUESTIONS" see: "SUSPICION" see "BELIEF" for other related links see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links Philosophy, means, first, doubt; and afterwards the consciousness of what knowledge means, the consciousness of uncertainty and of ignorance, the consciousness of limit, shade, degree, possibility. The ordinary man doubts nothing and suspects nothing. --Henri Frédérick Amiel (1821—1881) Swiss critic. If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. --Francis Bacon (1561—1626) English philosopher and essayist. _The Advancement of Learning_ [1605] Weary the path that does not challenge reason. Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way. --Hosea Ballou (1771—1852) American theologian. O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? --Bible "Matthew" 14:31 - Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins? --Christian Nestell Bovee (1820—1904) American writer. Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. --Christian Nestell Bovee (1820—1904) American writer. - Materialists and madmen never have doubts. --G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874—1936) English essayist, novelist, and poet. By doubting we come at truth. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC) Roman orator and statesman. The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even about my doubts. --Gustave Flaubert (1821—1880) French novelist. In Cesare Lombroso's _The Man of Genius_ [1888], Chapter 1, Section 3. Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe. --Hermann Hesse (1877—1962) German novelist, poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. _Reflections_ [1974], #291 The attacks upon the [Supreme] Court are merely an expression of the unrest that seems to wonder vaguely whether law and order pay. When the ignorant are taught to doubt, they do not know what they safely may believe. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841—1935) Justice of the United States Supreme Court, legal historian, and philosopher. _Law and the Court_ [1913] The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. --Hungarian Proverb I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything. --T.H. (Thomas Henry) Huxley (1825—1895) English biologist {grandfather of Aldous Huxley}. Letter to Herbert Spencer [22 March 1886]. Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956) American journalist and literary critic. I respect faith but doubt is what gets you an education. --Wilson Mizner (1876—1933) American playwright. In H.L. Mencken _A New Dictionary of Quotations_ [1942]. Never do anything, concerning the rectitude of which you have a doubt. --Pliny the Younger or Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (62—c.115) Roman senator and author of a famous collection of letters. To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. --Jules Henri Poincaré (1854—1912) French mathematician and philosopher of science. _Science and Hypothsis_ [1903], author's preface. The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. --Bertrand Russell (1872—1970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate. There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. --George Santayana (1863—1952) Spanish-born philosopher and critic. _The Life of Reason_ [1905], ch. 4 Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt. --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _Measure for Measure_, Act 1, Scene 4 There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892) English poet. "In Memoriam A.H.H." [1850] It is our doubts that unite us and our certainties that divide us. --Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov [1921—2004] British entertainer, writer, and humanitarian. Doubt is not a very pleasant status, but certainty is a ridiculous one. --Voltaire (François Marie Arouet) (1694—1778) French writer and philosopher. ----- dubiety [doo-BY-uh-tee], noun: 1. The condition or quality of being doubtful or skeptical. 2. A matter of doubt Ex.: "I want every inconsistency, every dubiety, every ambiguity left in. --David Maclean, quoted in David Hencke, "Tories plot hunt bill dirty tricks," _The Guardian_ [17 January 2001] indubitable (adj.) [in-'du-bi-tê-bêl] Doubtless, without doubt, unquestioned; unquestionable. quandary [KWAHN-duh-ree; -dree], noun: A state of difficulty, perplexity, doubt, or uncertainty. Ex.: Don . . . told me of the quandary that the authorities were in. Should the ruins be left untouched or should they be reconstructed for a new wave of tourists? --Benjamin Hopkins, "How to avoid the tourists in Peru", Times (London), May 6, 2000 . . see "WAR & PEACE" for related links Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier. --Samuel Johnson (1709—1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. _Boswell's Life of Johnson_ [10 April 1778] . . . see: "BED" see: "NIGHT" see: "REST" see: "SLEEP" see "LIFE" for other related links see "THE MIND" for other related links see "SUCCESS" for other related links Dreams reflect current and future unsolved problems and rehearse their possible solutions. --Alfred Adler (1870—1937) Austrian psychologist. In Geoffrey Dudley's _How to Understand Your Dreams_ [1963], Ch. 10. A sigh can shatter a castle in the air. --William R. Alger (1822—1905) American minister and writer. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. --John Barrymore (John Sidney Blythe) (1882—1942) Shakespearean actor. In Gene Fowler _Good Night, Sweet Prince_ [1943]. Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine,the telephone the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams — daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing — are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization. --L. [Lyman] Frank Baum (1856—1919) American writer. People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. --Sir Max Beerbohm (1872—1956) English satirist and caricaturist. It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. --Erma Bombeck (1927—1996) American humorist. There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream — whatever that dream might be. --Pearl S. Buck (1892—1973) American author noted for her novels of life in China; winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature. _The Patriot_ [1939], Part II His early dreams of good outstripp'd the truth, And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824) English Romantic poet and satirist. One of the most tragic things I know about humans is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. --Dale Carnegie (1888—1955) American writer and lecturer. Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears. --Marcus Porcius Cato [byname Cato The Censor, or Cato The Elder] (234—149 BC) Roman statesman, orator, and the first Latin prose writer of importance. Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications. --C.C. Colton (1780—1832) English clergyman and writer. Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them. --Russell H. Conwell (1843—1925) American lawyer, author, clergyman, and educator. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. --James Dean (1931—1955) American film actor. All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them. --Walt Disney (1901—1966) American film producer, cartoon artist and the creator of Disneyland. To dream anything that you want to dream. That is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed. --Bernard Edmonds What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) American philosopher and poet. A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dead we have lost. --Euripides (485?—406 B.C.) Greek dramatist. _Alcestis_ [438 BC], Line 355 The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it. --William Faulkner (1897—1962) American novelist. We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. --Judy Garland [Frances Gumm] (1922—1969) American motion-picture singer and actress. "Imagination," in _Judy Garland_, by Anne Edwards [1975]. The only credential the city [New York] asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from. --Moss Hart (1904—1961) American playwright. _Act One_ [1959], pt. II What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? --Langston Hughes (1902—1967) American writer and poet. _Harlem_ [1951] I am captivated more by dreams of the future than by the history of the past. --Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826) American statesman and president [1801—1809]. Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. --Carl Gustav Jung (1875—1961) Swiss psychologist. - There's a long, long trail a-winding Into the land of my dreams, Where the nightingales are singing And a white moon beams: There's a long, long night of waiting Until my dreams all come true; Till the day when I'll be going down That long, long trail with you. --Stoddard King (1889—1933) American humorist and author and [Alonzo] Zo Elliott (1891—1964) American composer and lyricist, "There's a Long, Long Trail" [1913]. Listen to the song at: http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/theresalonglongtrailawinding.htm - All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. --T. E. Lawrence (1888—1935) English soldier and writer. _Seven Pillars of Wisdom_ And what they dare to dream of, they dare to do. --James Russell Lowell (1819—1891) American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat. Last night the thermometer dropped from 95 to 59. I dreamed that you and I were cruising the Mediterranean on my 30,000-ton yacht, the Kaiser Wilhelm II, with an orchestra of 118 pieces to entertain us, and 1,000 kegs of beer in the hold. Today I mixed and laid concrete for four hours. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956) American journalist and literary critic. Letter to Sara Haardt. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. --Edgar Allan Poe (1809—1849) American poet and short-story writer. "Eleonora" [1841] The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams. --Eleanor Roosevelt (1884—1962) American human rights activist, diplomat, and wife of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. --Theodore Roosevelt (1858—1919) American Republican statesman and President [1901—1909]. In a dream, you are never eighty. --Anne Sexton (1928—1974) American poet who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause... --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _Hamlet_ [1601] You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?' --George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] _Back to Methuselah_ [1921], pt. 1, act 1 How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true! --Logan Pearsall Smith (1865—1946) American-born man of letters. _Afterthoughts_ [1931] If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. --Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. "Conclusion" in _Walden_ [1854] Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. --Paul Valéry (1871—1945) French poet. In Ashton Applewhite, et. al. _And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes_, p. 201 [1992]. We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. --Woodrow Wilson (1856—1924) American Democratic statesman and President [1913—1921]. I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. --William Butler Yeats (1865—1939) Irish poet and dramatist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" [1899] -- I had a dream the other night. I was in the old West riding in a stagecoach. Suddenly, a man riding a horse pulls up to the left side of the stagecoach, and a riderless horse pulls up on the right. The man leans down, pulls open the door, and jumps off his horse into the stagecoach. Then he opens the other door and jumps onto the other horse. Just before he rode off, I yelled out, "What was that all about?" He replied, "Nothing. It's just a stage I'm going through." -- Last night I had a dream, A dream that made me laugh, I dreamt I was a bar of soap, And you were in the bath! --anon. I dreamt of a virile young stud, We rolled like two pigs in the mud, We spent half an hour, Making love in the shower, Then I fell out of bed with a thud --anon. ----- oneiric [oh-NY-rik], adjective: Of, pertaining to, or suggestive of dreams; dreamy. Ex: On this score, the novel might easily drift off into an oneiric never-never land, but Mr. Welch doesn't let this happen. --Peter Wild, "Visions of Blackfoot," _New York Times_ [2 November 1986] quixotic (adj.) 1. Excessively romantic: tending to take a romanticized view of life 2. Impractical: motivated by an idealism that overlooks practical considerations woolgathering [WOOL-gath-(uh)-ring], noun: Indulgence in idle daydreaming. end page | DANCING - DAY | DEATH - PAGE 1 (A-G) | DEATH - PAGE 2 (H-Z) | DEBATE - DEEDS | DECEPTION | DEFEAT - DELAY | DEMOCRACY | DENIAL - DESIRE | DESPAIR - DICKENS (CHARLES) | DICTIONARY - DILIGENCE | DINNER - DISABILITY | DISAGREEMENT - DISGUISE | DISHONESTY - DOCTORS | DOGS | (ON) DOING GOOD - DREAMS | DRESS - DRUNKENNESS | DUELS - DUTY | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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