Sentence examples for better deeds from inspiring English sources

At the end of his life, the poet wrote in a letter: "'If I should die,' said I to myself, 'I have left no immortal work behind me.'" Hence, the epitaph's depressing metaphor, which Keats borrowed from the depressingly titled seventeenth-century play, "Philaster, or Love Lies-a-Bleeding:" "All your better deeds / Shall be in water writ".

"Truth hath better deeds than words to grace it".

Alternatively, look at a map of your street, or even better the deeds of your house, on which north is usually marked with a large N. South is the opposite direction.

"Woodrell writes about violence and dark deeds better than almost anyone in America today," Donald Ray Pollock wrote here.

His constituents deserved better, but his deeds betrayed a sense of entitlement on his part that helped lead him to this dark point.

Woodrell writes about violence and dark deeds better than almost anyone in America today, in compact, musical prose that doesn't dwell on visceral detail.

It appears that John Hope Franklin has made the lives of others better through his deeds, sense of humor and realistic view of the world.

Barrett said the name for the effort came from a message left on his pillow on a hotel room in Kuala Lumpur that read, "A small deed done is better than a great deed planned".

As Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi put it last week: "There is no deed better than jihad, so to arms, to arms, soldiers of the Islamic state, fight, fight".

This is a book that is better with words than deeds, and a speaking, thinking chimp breaks into the citadel of man's supremacy in a way that a merely sexual chimp never could.

An overflowing roomful of university presidents, government and professional society executives, and longtime advocates of greater diversity told the board that words are good but deeds are better.