A Quote by Agesilaus II
If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.
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It is easy to understand that the best deed is well done: and so well as the best deed is done - the highest - so well is the least deed done; and all thing in its property and in the order that our Lord hath ordained it to from without beginning. For there is no doer but He.
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It is not the deed we do Though the deed be never so fair, But the love that the dear Lord looketh for, Hidden with lovely care In the heart of the deed so fair.
Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.
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The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.
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Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism
The good deed you do today, for a brother or sister in need will come back to you some day, for humanity's a circle in deed.
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.
