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 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. 
 We ought to do our neighbour all the good we can. If you do 
good, good will be done read more 
 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. 
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
'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.
 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.] 
 For now the field is not far off
 Where we must give the world a proof
  Of read more 
 For now the field is not far off
 Where we must give the world a proof
  Of deeds, not words. 
This is the Thing that I was born to do.
This is the Thing that I was born to do.
 All your better deeds
 Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.  
 All your better deeds
 Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.