It is not too late tomorrow to be brave
If honor bids. [ Armstrong ]

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth;
Nature is Christian, preaches to mankind;
And bids dead matter aid us in our creed. [ Young ]

First worship God; he that forgets to pray
Bids not himself good-morrow nor good day. [ T. Randolph ]

Love bade me swear and Love bids me forswear.
O, sweet suggesting Love! [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II. Sc. 6 ]

A soft answer bids a furioso put up his sword. [ Proverb ]

When words we want, love teacheth to indite;
And what we blush to speak, she bids us write. [ Robert Herrick ]

Thy pleasure points the shaft, and bends the bow;
The cluster blasts, or bids it brightly glow. [ Dr. Young ]

There is a charm, a power, that sways the breast,
Bids every passion revel or be still,
Inspires with anger, or all your cares dissolves;
Can soothe distraction and most despair,
That power is music. [ Armstrong ]

Few men will be better than their interest bids them. [ Proverb ]

A man that breaks his word bids others be false to him. [ Proverb ]

That is the briefest and sagest of maxims which bids us meddle not. [ Colton ]

Every one is proud of his office, and bids defiance to the scorner. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

He that remembers his virtues too much, bids others think of his vices. [ Proverb ]

Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous. [ Sterne ]

The grief that does not speak whispers the overfraught heart and bids it break. [ William Shakespeare ]

The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do. [ Byron ]

Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. [ William Shakespeare ]

The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree. [ W. B. Clulow ]