Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.
Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Prime Minister (Unabridged): Parliamentary Novel from the prolific English novelist, known for The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn”, p.137, e-artnow