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Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. New Edition. With Numerous Additions. [The Preface Signed: P. A. N.]

“When you've done all you can, do just a little bit more. Any extra effort you make will draw immense leverage from all the ordinary efforts which have preceded it. That can be powerful and effective.”

Littles Done Motivation Bits Can Do Powerful Effort Little Bit Draws Ordinary Extras Immense Extra Effort

Author:Ralph Marston

“What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.”

Way May Has Beens Done Struggle Painting Amount Deception Labour Sweat

Author:Michelangelo

“A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.”

Done Change Being Done

Book:Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

“If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased by good. Accumulating good is joyful.”

Ifs Mind May Done Joyful

Author:Gautama Buddha

“To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you've done, and though we may both carry the scars for life, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend.”

Way Want Should May Stills Done Able Forget Principles Rights Pride Demand Forgiveness My Friends Forgiving Refuse Quitting One Way Guarantees Scar Unspeakable Guarantees That

Author:Frederick Buechner

“I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.”

Done Order Authority Judgement

Author:Juvenal

“Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree.”

Ifs Soul Done Night Growth Watches Morning Accounts Mark Agree Decay Self-examination

Book:The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir

Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir

“Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like lustful beasts, that only know to do it: For lust will languish, and that heat decay, But thus, thus, keeping endless Holy-.”

Knows Done Sports Pleasure Holy Blind Lust Endless Heat Beast Decay Blindness Repent Filthy Lustful Languish

Book:The Works of Ben Jonson

Source: The Works of Ben Jonson

“What are the needs of the world? What can I do that won't be done if I don't do it?”

Ifs World Needs Done

Author:William J. Clinton

“Not all the labour of the earth Is done by hardened hands.”

Done Hands Earth Labor Labour Hardened

Author:Will Carleton

“The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people -- and that means you and me. Well, I believe in you, and I believe that if we work together, then one day we will say, "We fought the good fight. We finished the race. We kept the faith." And to our children and our children's children, we can say, "We did all what could be done in the brief time that was given us here on earth.".”

“Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you wish it would.”

Knows Done Wish Kitchen

Author:Ronald Reagan

“It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.”

Ifs Believe Long Done Life Is Grows Easy Clear Limits Evident Great Work

Author:Alfred Adler

“I don't think you ever feel a success really because everything could always be done better than you've done it.”

Thinking Feels Done Success Better Than You

Author:John Mortimer

“One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz, blues and rock, and have done since Traffic.”

Ifs World Done Problem Rocks Jazz Folks Traffic World Music

Author:Steve Winwood

“It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.”

Ifs Men Humans Done Facts Human Beings Greatness Occasions Great Men

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Beast Mode doesnt make excuses. It doesnt complain. Whatever youre doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.”

Ifs Thinking Men Done Form Games Sleep Figures Return Wake Up Excuse Complaining Beast Pushing Going To Sleep Get It Done Bad Games

Author:Matt Kemp

“As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it.”

Said Done Certain Clear Wife Crime Ought Bed Injury Suspicion Testimony Divorced

Book:Plutarch's Lives

Source: Plutarch's Lives

“I'm working, but there is so much still to be done! And it frightens me to think of my weight of years. But on we go, without fear or hesitation!”

Thinking Years Stills Done Weight Hesitation

Author:Giacomo Puccini

“When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.”

Said Real Done Whole Literature Glasses Real Life Drunk Cynicism Drunkenness Barrels Said And Done

Author:Anton Chekhov

“There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole mental development is cramped and their reason cowed, by the fear of heresy.”

Reason Done Whole Opinion Development Speech Fairs Harm Oppression Discussion Heresy Thorough Heretic Free Thought

Book:On Liberty

Source: On Liberty

“I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.”

“The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however incompetent one may feel before the unspeakable perfection and radiant splendour of nature.”

Feels Trying May Stills Done Dream Ought Bed Perfection Smoking Pipe Radiant Incompetent Unspeakable Splendour Smoking A Pipe Best Picture

Book:Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard

Source: Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard

“I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.”

Done Politics Politician Picks

Author:Red Skelton

“Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken.”

World Littles Done This World Aging Finished Senile Lack Of Time

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.”

Done Painting Description Suggestions

Author:Paul Gauguin

“If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!”

People Ifs Different Done Would Be Call Me Unworthy Scoundrels Plagiarism

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast.”

Done Young Next Can Do Wealth Steps Progress Discipline You Can Do It Next Steps Inherited Wealth

Book:Michael Crichton's Jurassic World

Source: Michael Crichton's Jurassic World

“The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit.”

Knows Said Matter Done Use Choices Know How Habit Colour Said And Done

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing!”

Done Water Taken Difficulty Bottom Grass Weaving Tackling

Author:Claude Monet

“It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done.”

Done Loneliness Satisfied Hardest Hardest Thing

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“I'm in a foul mood as I'm making stupid mistakes... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away... what a rage I was in!”

Done Lost Mistake Morning Stupid Painting Twenties Rage Mood Session Foul Stupid Mistake

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.”

Done Dream Break Hundred Burden Streams Dreamer Lit Fisherman Maidens

Book:A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems

Source: A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems

“With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done.”

Men Heart Littles Done Hands Turns House Work Alive Sky Dresses Seeds Golden Dry Brown Feds Spades

Book:The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

Source: The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

“Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.”

World Art Done Life Is Bears Horrible Avoiding

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials; it honors the place where it is done; it honors the art by which it is done; it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing.”

Giving Art Made Done Earth Names Work Materials Source Honor Connections Users Good Work

Book:Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays

Source: Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays

“There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.”

Done Work Good Work Work To Be Done

Book:Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays

Source: Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays

“The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.”

Done Today Sun Dying Burning

Book:Journey to Ixtlan

Source: Journey to Ixtlan

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