leave undone
Example Sentences
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Christ's teaching supplies the lack, showing what we are to do as well as what we are to leave undone.
From The Book of Courage by Faris, John Thomson
Say not, we will do the one, and not leave undone the other; for the inordinate degree to which the meaner passions are developed, dulls our sense of loftier needs.
From Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses by Adler, Felix
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)
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.
Out of two powerful motives, either of which may equally move us to do or leave undone a certain thing, can we infallibly tell which one has ultimately prompted our action?
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward