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   We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, Which we from time to time most grievouslyhave committed,By thought, word, and deed, Against thy Divine Majesty, Provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us.

—Book of Common Prayer

Non enim rei effectus, sed efficientis affectus in crimine est. Nec qu× fiunt, sed quo animo fiunt, ×quitus pensat. Crime liesnot inthe deed, but inthe doer'sintention: it is not what was done, but the spirit in which it was done that justice should consider.

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How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

—Whitman,Walt(er)

I'll say, a strangemanisa marvel, with hismighty talk; but what's a squabble in your back-yard, and the blow of a loy, have taught me that there's a great gap between a gallous story and a dirty deed. 834

—Synge,John Millington

All visible objects, man, are but aspasteboard masks.But in each eventöin the living act, the undoubted deedöthere, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask!

—Melville, Herman

O for ten years, that I may overwhelm Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed That my own soul has to itself decreed.

—Keats,John

   The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

But one thing we learned: there is no glory in the deed Until the soldier wears a badge of tarnished braid.

—Read, Sir Herbert Edward

  Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity. He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare: At whatever timethe deed took placeö!

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

Y'are the deed's creature.

—Middleton,Thomas