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Meantime, we pray you to think that we are, and will still be, your good kinsman and well-wisher, waiting but for times of whilk we do, as it were, entertain a twilight prospect, and appear and hope to be also your effectual well-doer.
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And in order to be a person's well-wisher and well-doer, we ought to succor his needs: this is done by almsgiving.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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They are in some sort rebels battling against time, not the humble well-doer content simply to live and bless God.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various
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It has been always to him the generous companion of his weary moments, never failing to return at spring the beauty so ruthlessly torn at autumn; rendering to his just soul the contentment of the well-doer in this world's works, yet still progressing, growing, and enlarging in its sphere of usefulness and trust.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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This central and vital beauty he had cultivated in a very diversified life, and he looked with confidence for the prize which is laid up for the well-doer.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various
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'On the dissolution of the body after death the well-doer is re-born in some happy state in heaven'
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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And the thing done indeed is right for the well-doer is praised; but the intention is corrupt: for it is done of a satanical purpose.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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Have you ever heard of King Euergetes, who, at his birth, was named the 'well-doer,' and who has earned that of the 'evil doer' by his crimes?
The Sisters — Volume 3 Georg Ebers 1867
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Have you ever heard of King Euergetes, who, at his birth, was named the 'well-doer,' and who has earned that of the 'evil doer' by his crimes?
The Sisters — Volume 3 Georg Ebers 1867
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Have you ever heard of King Euergetes, who, at his birth, was named the 'well-doer,' and who has earned that of the 'evil doer' by his crimes?
The Sisters — Volume 3 Georg Ebers 1867
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