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The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion the horse, how he shall take his prey.


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THE LION How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
FERDOWSI For this is the Great Deed that our Lord shall do, in which Deed He shall save His word and He shall...
JULIAN OF NORWICH He shall never know how I love him
EMILY BRONTë And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his se...
BIBLE Unlike all other forms of lute or combat the conditions are that the winner shall take nothing; neit...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be, He comes from Appomattox A...
CHARLES G. HALPINE (USED PSEUDONYM MILES O'REILLY) His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
BIBLE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
BIBLE It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Give a man a horse he can ride, give a man a boat he can sail; and his rank and wealth, his strength...
JAMES THOMSON For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when...
BIBLE The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
WALT DISNEY COMPANY All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell a...
BIBLE The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust s...
BIBLE And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, a...
BIBLE Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good...
GEORGE HERBERT Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, ...
AARON HILL Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? / Yet shall he be ...
BIBLE Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothin...
BIBLE How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
EDGAR LEE MASTERS The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the ...
BIBLE He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shal...
MOSHE SAFDIE I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how...
FERDINAND MARCOS He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall ...
BIBLE He who shall hurt the little wren / Shall never be beloved by men.
WILLIAM BLAKE And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: ...
BIBLE When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won...
UDAY KOTAK Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, no...
JANE AUSTEN No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but...
BIBLE The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and...
PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in h...
BIBLE If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own...
MATTHEW SIMPSON He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure...
BIBLE He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I ...
BIBLE He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall t...
BIBLE ...he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is...
EMILY BRONTE Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall ...
BIBLE His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
BIBLE He shall have chariots easier than air, That I will have invented; . . . And thyself, That art...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity sha...
BIBLE There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm...
JULES VERNE Servant Nanak serves the Lord, the Banker; he shall never again be called to render his account.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, ...
BIBLE He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
BIBLE When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upo...
BIBLE Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? / He that hath cle...
BIBLE He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, Weary of all shall want some.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have ca...
BIBLE He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog,...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his d...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON The tree of life is made of purity, eternity and has the bark of wisdom and enlightenment.With its b...
GARY F EVANS... Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite...
C.S. LEWIS He who seeks truth, shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty, shall find vanity. He who seeks order, s...
MOSHE SAFDIE And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall ea...
BIBLE At the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be wit...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll thei...
BIBLE They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years con...
LAURENCE BINYON They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old Age shall not weary them, nor the years condem...
LAURENCE BINYON Never sit under a tree waiting for the apple to fall. Climb the tree, grab that apple!
When it ...
TSEM TULKU RINPOCHE Art thou the topmost apple The gathers could reach, Reddening on the bough? Shall I not ...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN They have lived life. They have experienced joy. They met comfort and they saw deception. Their live...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his ri...
BIBLE Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispere...
GENA SHOWALTER Does a man not know when he has pepper in his eyes? If we forget yesterday, how shall we remember to...
ESAN MAGAZINE Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appe...
WILLIAM JAMES In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon h...
BIBLE For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou...
BIBLE And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him,...
BIBLE Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he i...
PHILLIP SIDNEY God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
JULIAN OF NORWICH He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
BIBLE They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years...
LAURENCE BINYON For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
BIBLE For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
BIBLE The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronge...
BIBLE The truth shall never be unique nor will it be soundly logic.
MARIANA FULGER For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful...
BIBLE Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit,...
BIBLE And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed fr...
BIBLE The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone fo...
BIBLE How lovely he appears! his little cheeks In their pure incarnation, vying with The rose leave...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) He that suffers the slightest breach in his morality can seldom tell what shall enter it, or how wid...
SAMUEL JOHNSON And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not ...
BIBLE Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?
PATRICK HENRY Take risks. Whoever risk, shall know how far they can reach.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he th...
BIBLE LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? / How long shall they utter and ...
BIBLE He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
BIBLE And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightne...
BIBLE The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
BIBLE But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of...
BIBLE Whether shall the Oxe goe, where he shall not labour?
GEORGE HERBERT He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.
CHANAKYA Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
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WILLIAM BLAKE He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the sc...
WILLIAM BLAKE Humility is only doubt, / And does the sun and moon blot out.
WILLIAM BLAKE I have mental joys and mental health,Mental friends and mental wealth,I've a wife that I love and th...
WILLIAM BLAKE If the Sun and Moon should doubt, / They'd immediately go out.
WILLIAM BLAKE excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I ta...
WILLIAM BLAKE The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of war, the beard of earth.
WILLIAM BLAKE A dog starved at his master's gate, Predicts the ruin of the state
WILLIAM BLAKE Dip him in the river who loves water.
WILLIAM BLAKE Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could fram...
WILLIAM BLAKE Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.
WILLIAM BLAKE For he hears the lambs innocent call.And he hears the ewes tender reply.He is watchful while they ar...
WILLIAM BLAKE Every tear from every eye / Becomes a babe in Eternity.
WILLIAM BLAKE Seek Love in the pity of others' woe,In the gentle relief of another's care,In the darkness of night...
WILLIAM BLAKE Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind...
WILLIAM BLAKE