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Tag Name "Forbear" (31)

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Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
William Shakespeare
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Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.
Ovid
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Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.
Aesop
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
Ben Jonson
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Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
Edmund Waller
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Remain steadfast in the faith instruct yourself bridle your tongue repress your wrath forbear to do evil associate with the good screen the faults of your neighbour relieve the poor by your alms and expect your reward in eternity.
Edouard Rene de Laboulaye
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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
Gautama Buddha
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Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow thy perish'd offspring in the winds.
John Armstrong
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Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame,The fire of love supplies While that which often bears the name,Is self in a disguise.True zeal is merciful and mild,Can pity and forbear The false is headstrong, fierce and wild,And breathes revenge and war.
John Newton
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
Martial
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Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.
Phyllis McGinley
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God whether God is just whether this life is the only state of existence.
Samuel Johnson
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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
Samuel Smiles
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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.
Thomas Carlyle
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I'll forbear And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.
William Shakespeare
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We cannot forbear suggesting one practical result which it appears to us must be greatly facilitated by the independent manner in which the engine orders and combines its operations: we allude to the attainment of those combinations into which imaginary quantities enter.
Ada Lovelace
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If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal government may then forbear the use of it . . .
Alexander Hamilton
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I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.
Daniel Defoe
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The mention of one apartment in a building naturally introduces an enquiry or discourse concerning the others: and if we think ofa wound, we can scarcely forbear reflecting on the pain which follows it.
David Hume
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Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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When the risk of failure is too high, the right choice is to forbear.
Ernest Sosa
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The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the expediency of giving effectual encouragement as well to the introduction of new and useful inventions from abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home.
George Washington
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As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?
John Milton
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