Deeds Quote by Thomas Browne Download Open image “To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.” — Thomas Browne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deeds Exceed History Infamous Nameless Worthy
To be worthy of the name, he must be free of two things; the force of tradition and tyranny of his own passions. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as… — Plato Copy Share Image
In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“It is we that are blind, not Fortune: because our eye is too dim to discover the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“That there must be heresies is true, not onely in our Church, but also in any other; even in Doctrines hereticall there will be… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“There is a musicke where-ever there is a harmony, order or proportion; and thus farre we may maintain the musick of the spheares; for… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When Allah puts barakah (His blessings) in something, it will come beyond your expectations- never underestimate the power of one good deed. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable. — Donald P. Ryan Copy Share Image
Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and… — John Barth Copy Share Image
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A nation of character is filled with citizens who gradually build lives based on the living awareness that their deeds are judged by eyes… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
