Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

Samuel Rogers

More information about this quote

Topic

Finishing a task

Author

Samuel Rogers

Source

Human Life

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1819 1810s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rogers, Samuel. Human Life. London: John Murray, 1819, I. 49.

Illustrated Quote

A quote by Samuel Rogers about finishing a task: “Think nothing done while aught remains to do.”
Download
A quote by Samuel Rogers about finishing a task: “Think nothing done while aught remains to do.”
Download
A quote by Samuel Rogers about finishing a task: “Think nothing done while aught remains to do.”
Download

Related Quotes

Below are one or more quotes that share at least one tag with the quote at the top of the page

Another quote from the 1810s

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

More information about this quote
Topic
Doubt and skepticism

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
German
Time
1819 1810s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Individual Points." Ueber Kunst und Altersthum [On Art and Antiquity]. 1826, vol. 5, issue 3.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Maxims and Reflections, edited by Peter Hutchinson, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Penguin Classics, 1999, no. 281.

Another quote of the following type Advice

Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

Buy Walden at Amazon Buy Walden at Amazon
Read Walden at Project Gutenberg
More information about this quote
Topic
Simple living Living well Life

Author

Henry David Thoreau
Source
Where I Lived, And What I Lived For Walden
Genre
Autobiography and memoir
Statement Type
Advice
Language
English
Time
1854 1850s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. "Where I Lived, And What I Lived For." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

Current Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. "Where I Lived, And What I Lived For." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.