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• I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Memories, Doe, Gone

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.83, Open Road Media

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• One more such victory and we are undone.

  Pyrrhus of Epirus

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Quoted in Plutarch, Parallel Lives

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• A single smile from her could make his entire being burn. One touch from her hand and he was undone. It was terrifying to think of how much power this one person had over him. How one single gesture from her could affect him so profoundly. (Sin thinking about Kat)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Hands, Gestures

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.178, Macmillan

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• It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Army, Duty

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• And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of ; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone ; if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

  Herman Melville

  Real, College, Men

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.108

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• To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!

  George Orwell

  Brother, Past, Men

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.25, Arcturus Publishing

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• Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.

  Judith Butler

  Missing, Faces, Ifs

  Judith Butler (2004). “Undoing Gender”, p.19, Psychology Press

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• Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Done, Villain

  William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedies of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.514, Modern Library

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• Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much he has assigned us to do we do not know, but if we fail in our assignment it is pretty certain that a part of the job will be left undone.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Jobs, Philosophy, Responsibility

  "The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan".

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• I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.

  Lois Lowry

  Done, Feels, Enjoyed

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• We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. All of the things that Shadow had done in his life of which he was not proud, all the things he wished he had done otherwise or left undone, came at him then in a swirling storm of guilt and regret and shame, and he had nowhere to hide from them. He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table, and dark Anubis the jackal god was his prosector and his prosecutor and his persecutor.

  Neil Gaiman

  Regret, Lying, Dark

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

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• Man is beginning to explore the galaxy. But how much remains undone on earth?

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Men, Earth, Remains

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1987). “Gorbachev: Mandate for peace”, Paperjacks

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• God loves us. He's watching us, he wants us to succeed, and we'll know someday that he has not left one thing undone for the eternal welfare of each of us. If we only knew it, there are heavenly hosts pulling for us -- friends in heaven that we can't rememer now, who yearn for our victory.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heaven, Victory, Want

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• Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun.

  Sylvia Plath

  Black, Decay, Sun

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.206, Faber & Faber

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• I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose thread will transform your warm sweater into a mangled heap of yarn that you can't reuse or repair.

  Tayari Jones

  Love Is, Yarn, Sweaters

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• David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering, and unflinching. To read it is to have yourself taken apart, undone, touched at the place of your own essence.

  Nicole Krauss

  Powerful, Taken, Land

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• I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.

  Bill Nighy

  Men, Relax, Buttons

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• A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot, Seeking with hand and heart The teacher whom she learned to love Before she knew t'was Art.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Teacher, Art, Children

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• It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shaky ladder, the crazy person who pins you to the linoleum and insists, with increasing urgency, that everything you know and love can be undone by a grape.

  David Sedaris

  Crazy, And Love, Looks

  David Sedaris (2010). “When You Are Engulfed In Flames”, p.72, Hachette UK

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• In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.

  Maya Angelou

  Wish, Trying, Institutions

  "Letter to My Daughter". Book by Maya Angelou, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2008.

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• We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes that all our work is undone, and there is still at least one vice of which they feel genuine shame. The danger of inducing cowardice in our patients, therefore, is lest we produce real self-knowledge and self-loathing, with consequent repentance and humility.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, War, Humility

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• Tightly held by rocks Through winter, the ice today Begins to come undone: A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.

  Saigyō

  Winter, Rocks, Ice

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• Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they've done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself.

  Gautama Buddha

  Humility, Done, Rudeness

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• Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once and for all his deeds, his joys and also his sufferings. Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. I should say having been is the surest kind of being.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Past, Men, Joy

  Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: Young Adult Edition: Young Adult Edition”, p.119, Beacon Press

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• A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Done, Left

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IX, (5), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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