If thou canst but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress and thy ease.
At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.
If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.
If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!
See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
Sin is a basilisk whose eyes are full of venom. If the eye of thy soul see her first, it reflects her own poison and kills her; if she see thy soul, unseen, or seen too late, with her poison, she kills thee: since therefore thou canst not escape thy sin, let not thy sin escape thy observation.
Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.
Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.
Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.
All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.
What thou art, that thou art; that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater.
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?
Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.
O money, money, money. I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, but I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.
[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.
Yet I did love thee to the last, As ferverently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now.
Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray. . . to pray is right. Pray if thou canst with hope; but ever pray Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay. Whatever is good to wish, ask that of heaven; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.
Go where thou wilt, thou canst not go out of thy Father's ground.
Thou canst not speak of thou dost not feel.