leave undone
Example Sentences
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Come to me if it pleaseth you; and, if you come not, there is in me that which shall pardon all you do, or leave undone, as long as ever I shall live on earth.
From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
You are just as big as the things you do, just as small as the things you leave undone.
From Lest We Forget World War Stories by Bigwood, Inez
Those small things, which by so many are esteemed as unnecessary, as not worth while, these were the very things he took care not to leave undone.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.
He could not make her believe that she did a thousand things, on such occasions, which she might just as well leave undone; and, to "have peace," he gave over the argument.
From Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)
All I can perform seems but a duty, and of course; all I leave undone, seems idleness and neglect.
From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny
