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Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
John Ruskin
You
Darkness
Light
Walk
Come
While
Lest
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
Life
Time
You
People
Will
Other
Spend
Spent
Be Careful
Determine
Only
How
Your
Lest
Coin
Careful
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.
William O. Douglas
Change
Oppression
Darkness
Become
Air
Everything
Once
Slight
Neither
Must
Seemingly
Unchanged
Both
Remains
Come
Most
Does
However
Victims
Lest
Aware
Twilight
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Myself
Lose
Action
Despair
Must
Wither
Lest
It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.
H. P. Lovecraft
Life
Alone
Peace
Dark
Safety
Black
Sleeping
Corners
Earth
Out
Some
Absolutely
Splash
Dead
Wake
Surviving
Mankind
Depths
Lest
Necessary
Wider
Nightmares
Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.
John Wesley
Me
Heart
Money
Way
Out
Possible
Would
Find
Stays
Throw
Never
Soon
Did
Hands
Burn
Should
Lest
A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.
Jimmy Reid
Silence
You
Injustice
Face
Rat
Society
Pressures
Critical
Would
Promotion
Insidious
Rat Race
Rats
Faculties
Around
Caution
Human
Human Beings
Blunt
Happening
Race
Your
Beings
Lest
Reject
Chances
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop
You
Lose
Shadow
Beware
Substance
Grasping
Lest
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Montesquieu
Liberty
Apprehension
Tyrannical
Laws
Arise
Execute
Powers
Executive
Because
Enact
Person
Senate
Same
May
Legislative
Them
Manner
Should
Body
Lest
Monarch
United
Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
William Shakespeare
You
Mind
Little
Should
Your
Fortunes
Lest
Mar
Speech
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
Claude Debussy
Sad
Life
Beautiful
Hope
Art
People
Events
Most Beautiful
Try
Will
Become
Everyday
Must
Remain
Factory
Most
Although
Deception
Lest
Utilitarian
Thing
Incorporate
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
Life
Care
Become
Too
Monster
Monsters
Hundred
Hundred Times
Ourselves
Bore
Take
Take Care
He
Times
Short
Might
Us
Fights
Who
Thereby
Lest
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
Simone Weil
Soul
Lie
Doubt
Danger
Hungry
Itself
Any
Bread
Whether
Persuade
Should
Lest
Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Broken
You
Too
Squeezed
Hard
Lest
Soft
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
William Drummond
Silence
Peace
Words
Safety
Before
Repentance
Own
Mouth
Guard
Destroy
Put
Thy
Cometh
Lips
Much
Speaking
Lest
Bridle
Thine
Tongue
Set
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
Truth
Good
You
Truth Is
Dog
Too
Kicked
Out
Beware
Always
Brains
Error
Close
Get
Heels
Your
Barking
Lest
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
Albert Pike
Man
Fire
Live
Too
He
Freeze
Does
His
Nor
Off
Burn
Far
Should
Lest
Near
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
Arthur Miller
Man
Tools
Must
Shape
Him
His
Lest
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
Christina Rossetti
Truth
Hope
Youth
Eyes
Joy
Beauty
Gave
Pleasant
Gaze
Ways
Bitter
Bitter Truth
Vanity
Tender
She
Covered
Up
Should
Lest
Chose
Her
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
Demosthenes
War
You
Anxiety
Master
Beware
Obtain
Your
Avoid
Lest
I am sure I ought not to be, but I have great reason to tremble lest Satan and my own wicked heart get the better of me. It is no easy matter to fight such enemies as these, but with Christ strengthening me, I know I shall come off more than a conquerer.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Great
Me
Heart
Fight
Satan
Better
Matter
Enemies
Christ
Own
Wicked
Tremble
Ought
Easy
My Own
More
Shall
Come
Know
Sure
Am
Off
Than
Get
Reason
Lest
Strengthening
In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.
Emily Dickinson
Life
Broken
Stumble
Hopes
Likes
Well
Sure
Pile
Lest
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
Epictetus
Control
Take
Thy
Passions
Thee
Lest
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
Man
Wealth
Fears
Poverty
Rich
Poor Man
Despised
Latter
He
Conceal
Wishes
His
Former
Poor
Rich Man
Lest
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
People
Speak
Liberty
Disagree
Citizen
Duty
Extreme
Say
Out
Misguided
Underfoot
Protect
Partisanship
Left
American
Trampled
Happening
American People
Vigilant
Awaken
Lest
Each
Right
Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
Saint Basil
Journey
You
Speak
Fear
Word
Long
Despise
Our
Unable
Out
More
Unreasonable
Long Journey
Through
Absolutely
Because
Fish
Command
Perpetuation
Than
Listen
May
Reason
Who
Actions
Lest
Even
Creator
Species
Utter
Resisting
Set
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