“The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.”
Source: The Magician's Elephant
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“I still feel that we should act with restraint. It’s much easier not to do than to undo.”
Section 12 (p. 218)
Short fiction, Rumfuddle (1973)
Superman Comes to the Supermarket http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a3858/superman-supermarket/ (November 1960)
Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
Source: Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage (1969), CHAPTER 3, The truth squad, p. 36
“Chaos doesn’t do, it undoes.”
Bathing the Lion
“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”
Quoted in Thoughts (1901) by Jessie K. Freeman and Sarah S. B. Yule, p. 83, and in Collect Writings of Russell H. Conwell (1925), Vol. 1, p. 396
Context: Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. We must purposely be kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart which goes out of itself gets large and full. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“What they do, no authority upon earth can undo.”
Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769)
Context: Book I, ch. 2 https://lonang.com/library/reference/tucker-blackstone-notes-reference/tuck-202/: Of the Parliament.
