Lest Quotes

372 quotes by 299 authors

The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find if hearts be… — William Butler Yeats
In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him. — Louis IX of France
Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your practices? Surely not.… — Joseph Brant
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. — Sophocles
Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn't give it a… — Kabir
Let your invocation be the all-embracing Name, which is Allah, Allah, Allah, or if you so wish, Huwa, Huwa, Huwa; and do not violate this… — Ibn Ata Allah
I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic… — Fanny Kemble
The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to… — H P Lovecraft
Take heed when you think you stand, lest you fall. In this life you can fall from any level. — Rick Joyner
We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors… — Emma Goldman
Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground. — Phil Knight
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… — Robert E. Lee
But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to… — Origen
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the people. Those great… — William O. Douglas
As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression...It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air… — William O. Douglas
Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow. — Cotton Mather
O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the… — Leonardo da Vinci
You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others — Steven Erikson
He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall… — Johannes Tauler
I counsel you, in the words of Jesus Christ, to "watch and pray I always lest ye enter into temptation; for Satan desireth to have… — Ezra Taft Benson

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