Lest Quotes
372 quotes by 299 authors
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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.
— Francis Bacon
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Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
— Aneurin Bevan
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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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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
— Samuel Butler
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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…
— Robert Byrd
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
— Taylor Caldwell
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Suffer me never to think that I have knowledge enough to need no teaching, wisdom enough to need no correction, talents enough to need no…
— Eric Milner-White
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear. It is fear…
— Bertrand Russell
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Jesus was not a whisperer. No one ever saw Him close to His neighbor's ear, looking stealthily around lest some one should overhear what He…
— Samuel Logan Brengle
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One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high taxes from starting…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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As God's child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord's time is as important as the Lord's will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael…
— Watchman Nee
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And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.
— Confucius
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Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
— Joseph Conrad
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The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.
— Mark Twain
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God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!
— William Shakespeare
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