Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street.

‑ William Blake, Gnomic Verses, I


Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night's repose:

‑ Longfellow, The Village Blacksmith


How far that little candle throws its beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

‑ Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, V, 1