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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.
Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.
Hours are golden links, God's token
Reaching heaven; but one by one
Take them, lest the chain be broken
Ere the pilgrimage be done.
Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
All day long and all night through, One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in the flood.
Take heed when you think you stand, lest you fall. In this life you can fall from any level.
Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.
Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions.
...lest too light winning make the prize light.
In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
It's a cinch that if you read it in an occult periodical or paperback, everyone's doing it. That should be your cue to avoid such stuff, lest you be relegated to the same readership level.
I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring upon them misfortune.
Beware of those who seek to take care of you lest your caretakers become your jailers.
Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.
I'm not a good businessman and I don't promote myself particularly well. It's best I don't talk to anybody lest I alienate myself.
The laws have become so straight-jacketing that presidents and their aides dare not keep journals or diaries, lest they be subpoenaed by avid special prosecutors.
Listen before you draw your battle lines, lest you alienate your allies.
Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.
It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.
True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.
Concentrate on the correct movements each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits of their value.
Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.
God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.
There is a time for scientists and movie stars and those who have flown the atlantic to restrain their opinions lest they be taken more seriously than they should be.
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
Do not put off today's work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.
If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.
Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.
If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.
O Lord, correct me, but with judgment: not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.
Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.
Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.
Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.
Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.
Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.
Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.
My mother, who hates thunderstorms,
Holds up each summer day and shakes
It out suspiciously, lest swarms
Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there.
If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.
The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
