It Was A' for Our Rightfu' King, st. 2
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
“What men have done can still be done
And shall be done to-day.”
The Song of Abu Klea, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“It is pointless to do with more what can be done with fewer.”
Frustra fit per plura, quod potest fieri per pauciora.
Summa Totius Logicae, i. 12, cited in "Ockham's Razor" by Paul Newall at Galilean Library (25 June 2005) http://www.galilean-library.org/manuscript.php?postid=43832
“I want to do everything in the world that can be done.”
Journal of a Residence in America, entry for September 11, 1832 (1835).
“Anything worth doing can be done by someone else.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street.”
Great Things Are Done
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1807-1809)
“When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.”
Swallowdale (Chapter 8), 1931
“I have done this to show what an Englishman can do.”
Note found on his corpse; quoted in Bruce Chatwin, What am I Doing Here?
“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”
Wendung (Turning Point), as translated by Stephen Mitchell
