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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Well-doing

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others concerned with him have done evil! If a man has acted right, he has done well, though alone: if wrong, the sanction of all mankind will not justify him.

Fielding.

The Hebrews have a saying that God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns; it is not so much the matter that is done, but the matter how it is done, that God minds. Not how much, but how well! It is the well-doing that meets with a well-done. Let us therefore serve God, not nominally or verbally, but adverbially.

R. Venning.