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«Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.»
«Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master»
Author: Demosthenes | Keywords: anxiety, lest, obtain
«Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out»
«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.»
«And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright»
«And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat: / Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.»
«And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow, / And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: disciples, his disciples, lest, sleeping
«Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: deceit, deceits, lest, rudiments, spoil, tradition
«Battle not with monsters lest you become one.»
«Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.»

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