Quotes with forbear

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• Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

  Buddha
  Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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• Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

  Ovid
  Roman poet (43 - 17)
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• Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.

  Matthew Prior
  British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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• Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

  Robert Louis Stevenson
  Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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• If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
  

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... ''Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.''

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

  Samuel Smiles
  Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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• What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

  John Milton
  English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• shakespeare
• distinguish
• knowledge
• apprehend
• pleasures
• wayfaring

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