"So much to do, so little done" nghĩa là gì?

"So much to do, so little done" -> nghĩa là lực bất tòng tâm.

Ví dụ

“In 1934 when I applied to the Dean for admission to Lincoln University, I quoted Tennyson’s In Memoriam, ‘So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.’ This was then to me, as it still is today, an inspiration and a spur. It fired within me a determination to equip myself for the service of my country.” At that pivotal time, Nkrumah was merely in his mid-twenties.

On his application form he wrote: “I neither know where to begin nor where to end because I feel that the story of my life has not been one of achievements. In truth, the burden of my life can be summarized into a single line in The Memoriam [sic] quoted by Cecil Rhodes, ‘So much to do so little done’.”

Several British statesmen such as Queen Victoria’s son-in-law, Lord Fife, and top British government colonial official, Lord Selbourne, were BSAC directors. Several others, such as Lord Salisbury, one time British Prime Minister were shareholders (cổ đông in Rhodes’ enterprises such as the diamond undertakings. He was indeed a corrupt colonialist (tên thực ăn hối lộ), and died saying: “So much to do, so little done.”

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