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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
Sydney J. Harris
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
Emily Brontë
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
Emil Cioran
Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
Arthur Eddington
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
Edith Wharton
A princely mind will undo a private family.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.
Yoshida Kenkō
A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.
Marcus Aurelius
Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches.
Zora Neale Hurston
Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, Yes but if we have such another victory, we are undone.
Francis Bacon
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
Confucius
The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.
Edward Young
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso
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
Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.
David Carradine
I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
Ike Turner
A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em.
Cyril Tourneur
When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
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
There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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