Our acts are angels are, for ...

Our acts are angels are, for good or ill: our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Our acts are angels are, for good or ill: our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
 John Fletcher

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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.

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Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.
 John Fletcher
'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.
 John Fletcher
Great actions speak great minds.
 John Fletcher