Anything done for another is done for oneself.
[Lat., Qui facit per alium facit per se.]

Anything done for another is done for oneself.
[Lat., Qui facit per alium facit per se.]

"I worked for men," my Lord will say,
When we meet at the end of the King's highway;
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"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?"

An injury graves itself in metal, but a benefit writes itself in
water.
[Fr., L'injure se grave en read more

An injury graves itself in metal, but a benefit writes itself in
water.
[Fr., L'injure se grave en metal; et le bienfait s'escrit en
l'onde.]

His deeds inimitable, like the Sea
That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts
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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.

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and
we have done those things which read more

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.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar.
And what we have been makes us what we are.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar.
And what we have been makes us what we are.

Things of today?
Deeds which are harvest for Eternity!

Things of today?
Deeds which are harvest for Eternity!

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

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

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.