We are our own fates. Our own deeds
Are our doomsmen. Man's life was made
Not for men's creeds,
But men's actions.
Lucile, Pt. II. Canto V. LORD LYTTON (Owen Meredith).
Go put your creed into your deed.
Nor speak with double tongue.
Ode: Concord, July 4, 1857. R.W. EMERSON.
CRIME.
There is a method in man's wickedness,
It grows up by degrees.
A King and no King, Act v. Sc. 4. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
Tremble, thou wretch,
That has within thee undivulged crimes,
Unwhipped of justice.
King Lear, Act iii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
But many a crime deemed innocent on earth
Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt
Have each their record, with a curse annexed.
The Task, Bk. VI. W. COWPER.
CRITICISM.
And finds, with keen, discriminating sight,
Black's not so black;—nor white so very white.
New Morality. A. CANNING.
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold,
Alike fantastic if too new or old:
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Essay on Criticism, Pt. II. A. POPE.