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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
Live riotously lest not you regret the minutes, moments, hours and days of time gone by.
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.
Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.
Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.
The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.
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.
In my twenties, I was virulently opposed to anyone commenting on my appearance, lest it come at the expense of my ability.
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.
Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.
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.
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
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.
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?
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.
Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.
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.
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
The laws have become so straight-jacketing that presidents and their aides dare not keep journals or diaries, lest they be subpoenaed by avid special prosecutors.
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.
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.
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.
Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.
You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.
God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.
Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
People have the right to live as equal citizens under the law. They do not have the right to demand that their identities be coddled and celebrated lest they might otherwise get offended.
I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at least in their parents' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever.
We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.
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.
As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?
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.
Jesus said, 'Judge not, lest ye be judged.' Let's stop trying to choose the political leaders who we believe are the most godly because, in reality, only God knows people's hearts. You and I don't, and we are all sinners.
If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?