Actions

Famous quotes containing the word actions:

    “There is a Book
    By seraphs writ with beams of heavenly light,
    On which the eyes of God not rarely look,

    A chronicle of actions just and bright—
    There all thy deeds, my faithful Mary, shine;
    And since thou own’st that praise, I spare thee mine.”
    —William Cowper (1731–1800)

    “They are actions that a man might play,
    But I have that within which passes show,
    These but the trappings and the suits of woe.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “When our actions do not,
    Our fears do make us traitors.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)