The die is cast. [ The exclamation of Caesar as he crossed the Rubicon, Suetonius ]
Fore-cast is better than work-hard. [ Proverb ]
Cast not the helve after the hatchet. [ Proverb ]
Coming events cast their shadows before. [ Thomas Campbell ]
You cast your net but nothing was caught. [ Proverb ]
He has not lost all who has one cast left. [ Proverb ]
Great souls are not cast down by adversity. [ Proverb ]
Force without fore-cast is of little avail. [ Proverb ]
Who to dumb forgetfulness a prey,
This pleasing anxious being ever resigned;
Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,
Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? [ Gray ]
If your cast be bad, mend it with good play. [ Proverb ]
Cast all your care on God; that anchor holds. [ Tennyson ]
Great honours are great burdens; but on whom
They're cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. [ Ben Jonson ]
I like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls
The burial ground, God's Acre! It is just;
It consecrates each grave within its walls.
And breathes a benison over the sleeping dust.
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Into its furrows shall we all be cast.
In the sure faith, that we shall rise again
At the great harvest, when the archangel's blast
Shall winnow, like a fan, the chaff and grain. [ Longfellow ]
Brave men ought not to be cast down by adversity. [ Silius Italicus ]
Although it rain, cast not away thy watering-pot. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Don't cast out your foul water till you have clean. [ Proverb ]
Cast no dirt into the well that hath given you water. [ Proverb ]
It is in vain to cast your net where there is no fish. [ Proverb ]
They are the heritage that glorious minds
Bequeath unto the world! — a glittering store
Of gems, more precious far than those he finds
Who searches miser's hidden treasures over.
They are the light, the guiding star of youth.
Leading his spirit to the realms of thought,
Pointing the way to Virtue, Knowledge, Truth,
And teaching lessons, with deep wisdom fraught.
They cast strange beauty round our earthly dreams,
And mystic brightness over our daily lot;
They lead the soul afar to fairy scenes,
Where the world's under visions enter not;
They're deathless and immortal — ages pass away,
Yet still they speak, instruct, inspire, amidst decay! [ Emeline S. Smith ]
Cast a bone in the devil's teeth and it will save you. [ Proverb ]
To cast oil into the fire, is not the way to quench it. [ Proverb ]
He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack,
For he knew, when he pleased, he could whistle them back. [ Goldsmith ]
A mouse must not think to cast a shadow like an elephant. [ Proverb ]
Hope smiled when your nativity was cast. Children of Summer! [ Wordsworth ]
I have set my life upon a cast, and I will stand the hazard of the die. [ Shakespeare ]
The native hue of resolution is sicklied over with the pale cast of thought. [ William Shakespeare ]
When the devil of contradiction once possesses a man, he is hard to be cast out. [ Proverb ]
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. [ Jesus ]
Give not that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine. [ Jesus ]
Though all men were made of one metal, yet they were not cast all in the same mould. [ Proverb ]
Let not one look of Fortune cast you down; she were not Fortune if she did not frown. [ Earl of Orrery ]
It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears. [ Bishop Hall ]
In this world, full often our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. [ Beecher ]
You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning. [ Richard Baxter ]
It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee! [ Barry Cornwall ]
He that lets his fish escape into the water, may cast his net often yet never catch it again. [ Proverb ]
Though cast off, I have not fallen so low as to be beneath thee, than which nothing can be lower. [ Ovid ]
The loves that meet in paradise shall cast out fear; and paradise hath room for you and me and all. [ Christina G. Rossetti ]
For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best. [ Sophocles ]
The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name. [ George Herbert ]
The greater the height from which a stone is cast, the greater the impression on the spot where it falls. [ French ]
Chance is always powerful; let your hook always be cast. In a pool where you least expect it there will be a fish. [ Ovid ]
Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish. [ Ovid ]
First cast the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. [ Jesus ]
On things which are no more to be changed a backward glance must be no longer cast! What is done is done, and so remains. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
We see, though ordered for the best, permitted laurels grace the lawless brow, the unworthy raised, the worthy cast below. [ Dryden ]
Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world; no heart was ever cast in the same mould, as that which we bear within us. [ F. Berni ]
Always driven toward new shores, or carried hence without hope of return, shall we never, on the ocean of age, cast anchor for even a day! [ Lamartine ]
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we could cast the gift of a lovely thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels must give. [ George Macdonald ]
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry. [ Pope ]
He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; He hath bidden me; they cannot burden Him. [ Bishop Hall ]
When I cast my bread to the birds on the shores, the waves seemed to say: Hope! for, when thou comest to want, God will return thy bread! God still owes it to me. [ Hegesippe Moreau ]
Genius, without religion, is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace. It may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in. darkness. [ Hannah More ]
Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him. [ Rutherford ]
The generality of princes, if they were stripped of their purple and cast naked on the world, would immediately sink to the lowest rank of society, without a hope of emerging from their obscurity. [ Gibbon ]
Good words do more than hard speeches; as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveller cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him. [ Leighton ]
The heart, when broken, is like sweet gums and spices when beaten; for as such cast their fragrant scent into the nostrils of men, so the heart, when broken, casts its sweet smell into the nostrils of God. [ Bunyan ]
Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the ever-living, ever-working universe. It is a seed-grain that cannot die; unnoticed today, it will be found flourishing as a banyan-grove, perhaps, alas! as a hemlock forest, after a thousand years. [ Carlyle ]
The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge of the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye; a rolling eye, a roving heart. The good eye keeps minute time, and strikes when it should; the lustful, crochet-time, and so puts all out of tune. [ Rev. T. Adams ]
The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-travelling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and cast anchor; the ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise; odors of distant countries and times steal from the red leaves the swelling ridges of vellum, and the titles in tarnished gold. [ R. A. Willmott ]
There is still a real magic in the action and reaction of minds on one another. The casual deliration of a few becomes, by this mysterious reverberation, the frenzy of many; men lose the use, not only of their understandings, but of their bodily senses; while the most obdurate unbelieving hearts melt like the rest in the furnace where all are cast as victims and as fuel. [ Carlyle ]
No process is so fatal as that which would cast all men in one mould. Every human being is intended to have a character of his own, to be what no other is, to do what no other can do. Our common nature is to be unfolded in unbounded diversities. It is rich enough for infinite manifestations. It is to wear innumerable forms of beauty and glory. Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influences to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. [ Channing ]
Two things a master commits to his servant's care - the child and the child's clothes. It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say, at his master's return, Sir, here are all the child's clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lost.
Much so of the account that many will give to God of their souls and bodies at the great day. Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little care and thought about it.
[ John Flavel ]