If thou canst not suffer - die! [ A. de Musset ]

Inspiring bold John Barleycorn,
What dangers thou canst make us scorn. [ Burns ]

Canst thou thunder with a voice like him? [ Bible ]

Thou canst not fly high with borrowed wings. [ Proverb ]

These grains of gold are not grains of wheat!
These bars of silver thou canst not eat;
These jewels and pearls and precious stones
Cannot cure the aches in thy bones,
Nor keep the feet of death one hour
From climbing the stairways of thy tower. [ Longfellow ]

Canst thou not minster to a mind diseased;
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow;
Raze out the written troubles of the brain;
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilous stuff,
Which weighs upon the heart? [ William Shakespeare ]

Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor;
And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away. [ Cowper ]

All Nature is but art unknown to thee;
All chance direction, which thou canst not see. [ Pope ]

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain?
And with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart? [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away?
The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky,
Thou still canst find the color of thy wing.
The hue of May.
Warbler, why speed thy southern flight? ah, why,
Thou too, whose song first told us of the Spring?
Whither away? [ E. C. Stedman ]

Thou canst not serve God, unless your mammon serve you. [ Proverb ]

At the least bear patiently, if thou canst net joyfully. [ Thomas a Kempis ]

If thou thyself canst do it, attend no other's help or hand. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear. [ Coleridge ]

In water thou canst see thine own face, in wine thou canst see into the heart of another. [ Proverb ]

Do what good thou canst unknown; and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen. [ William Penn ]

Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest. [ William Shakespeare ]

Nature has said to woman: Be fair if thou canst, be virtuous if thou wilt; but, considerate, thou must be. [ Beaumarchais ]

Thou canst withstand fate, but many a time it gives blows. Will it not go out of thy way, why then, go thou out of its. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The recording angel, consider it well, is no fable, but the truest of truths; the paper tablets thou canst burn; of the "iron leaf" there is no burning. [ Carlyle ]

Shouldst thou fail, let it not trouble thee, for failure (defect) leads to love. If thou canst not free thyself from failure, thou wilt never forgive others. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more. He asks of thee works first and words after. [ Charles Kingsley ]

Let the foundation of thy affection be virtue, then make the building as rich and as glorious as thou canst; if the foundation be beauty or wealth, and the building virtue, the foundation is too weak for the building, and it will fall: happy is he, the palace of whose affection is founded upon virtue, walled with riches, glazed with beauty, and roofed with honor. [ Quarles ]