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• At work you worry over the family at home. At home you fret over work left undone. Behold the working woman's stress.

  Elaine A. Cannon

  Family, Work, Stress

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• He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Men, Mind, World

  1900 The Voice of the People, bk.2, ch.4.

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• All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop ‘Hidden Art’ will also, of course, take time and energy – and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities

  Edith Schaeffer

  Art, Book, Writing

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls than even Eden's luscious fruits. There the mischief of the serpent in the first garden was undone: there the curse was lifted from earth, and borne by the woman's promised seed.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kings, Garden, Sweat

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1928). “Morning and Evening: Daily Readings”, p.404, CCEL

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• Life is worthy of the name only when it reflects Reality in action. No university will teach you how to live so that when the time of dying comes, you can say: I lived well I do not need to live again. Most of us die wishing we could live again. So many mistakes committed, so much left undone. Most of the people vegetate, but do not live. They merely gather experience and enrich their memory. But experience is the denial of Reality, which is neither sensory nor conceptual, neither of the body, nor of the mind, though it includes and transcends both.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Memories

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• We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

  William James

  Character, Fate, Evil

  "The Principles of Psychology". Book by William James, 1890.

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• There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  People, Desire, Losing

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• We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, we have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

  Charles Hummel

  Time, Focus, Priorities

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• If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.

  Laozi

  Practice, Way, Action

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• So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Men, Judging

  Mark Twain (1809). “The Writings of Mark Twain: Following the equator; a journey around the world”, p.243

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• I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breath life into me.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Book, Character

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.24, Profile Books

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• Pause and remember - The past is over and it cannot be changed, fixed or undone by continuing to think about it. The quicker we can get over our mistakes, understand the lessons and move forward, the healthier we become to ourselves and everyone around us!

  Jennifer Young

  Mistake, Moving, Recovery

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• The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one.

  Peter Gabriel

  Tears, Skins, Milk

  Song: Come Talk to Me, 1992

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• For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

  Adam Lindsay Gordon

  Death, Resolution, Vain

  Adam Lindsay Gordon, Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1911). “Poems: A.H. Massina”

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• An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.

  Max Muller

  Men, Evil, Doe

  Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.160, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?

  Pythagoras

  Fall, Sleep, Eye

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• A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.

  Doris Lessing

  Tyrants, Library, World

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• Time is passing. Each day is a glorious opportunity to live and enjoy. Today I will let the past die - all the undone things, all the misjudged things... Today, there are new pleasures, new challenges, new magic.

  Ruth Carter Stapleton

  Time, Past, Opportunity

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• Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us today. The rulers of the earth have realized long ago what potent poison inheres in the Christian religion. That is the reason they foster it; that is why they leave nothing undone to instill it into the blood of the people. They know only too well that the subtleness of the Christian teachings is a more powerful protection against rebellion and discontent than the club or the gun.

  Emma Goldman

  Christian, Powerful, Teaching

  "The Failure of Christianity". Essay in the Mother Earth Journal, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. April 1913.

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• Sorry,” she said breathlessly. “I got lost in the crowd.” “I noticed,” he said. “One second I was dancing with you, and the next you were gone and a very persistent werewolf was trying to get the buttons on my jeans undone.” Sebastian chuckled. “Girl or boy werewolf?” “Not sure. Either way, they could have used a shave.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Sorry, Boys

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.

  John Wayne

  Leadership, Sports, Men

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• A lover of what is looks forward to everything: life, death, disease, loss, earthquakes, bombs, anything the mind might be tempted to call 'bad.' Life will bring us everything we need, to show us what we haven't undone yet. Nothing outside ourselves can make us suffer. Except for our unquestioned thoughts, every place is paradise.

  Byron Katie

  Loss, Earthquakes, Mind

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.74, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Mind, Guilt, Done

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.112

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• They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods

  Rudyard Kipling

  Nature, Rain, Years

  'Rewards and Fairies' (1910) 'The Way through the Woods'

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• Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Punishment, Heartless, Has Beens

  Khaled Hosseini (2008). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.276, Penguin

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