Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.
I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.
Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
I don't think Vladimir Putin goes to the theater enough to even deign to think there was any criticism intended. We were invited by Moscow. Maybe they wanted a particular production of Julius Caesar in order to remind Putin that he was vulnerable, but that wasn't our intention.
A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife.
I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
Follow what you love!. . . Don't deign to ask what they are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests, which change, but what you are and what you love, which will and should not change.
