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Tag Name "Lest" (284)

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The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.
Jared Diamond
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Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them.
Jerry Spinelli
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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.
John Lancaster Spalding
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Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
Elbert Hubbard
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
Arthur Miller
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I tried to avoid looking at the dress full on, lest it burn out my retinas with its glittering hideousness.
Katie MacAlister
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Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.
Charles Caleb Colton
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That's the wise thrush he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
Robert Browning
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O Allah do not give me in excess lest I may be disobedient.
Umar
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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?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.
Sophocles
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully: a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman. [Fr., Ne forcons point notre talent Nous ne ferions rien avec grace: Jamais un lourdaud, quoi qu'il fasse, Ne saurit passer pour galant.]
Jean de La Fontaine
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True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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A seed of hope caught a taste of moisture. Some wishful kernel buried deep, where he was loathe to acknowledge it lest it poison or choke him, began to sprout.
Hugh Howey
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And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free hearted earth for mother, and God for father.
Khalil Gibran
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Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.
Francis Quarles
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Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.
Kenneth Grahame
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We will build our defenses beyond challenge, lest weakness invite challenge. We will confront weapons of mass destruction, so that a new century is spared new horrors.
George W. Bush
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
Demosthenes
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Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.
Saint John Chrysostom
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To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.
Robert Byrd
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May we all beware lest our innovative ideas appear very cliche before we even blink.
David Livermore
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The Bible says, Judge not lest ye be judged. Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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