Follow reason. [ Motto ]
Fishes follow the bait. [ Proverb ]
Follow thou thy choice. [ William Cullen [Bryant ]
Follow thou thy own star. [ Dante ]
As the world leads we follow. [ Seneca ]
Follow what is worthy of thee. [ Motto ]
Follow close on those who precede. [ Motto ]
What by duty's voice is bidden.
There, where duty's star may guide,
Thither follow, that accomplish,
Whatsoever else betide. [ R. C. Trench ]
Learn to read slow; all other graces
Will follow in their proper places. [ Wm. Walker ]
Follow a shadow, it still flies you.
Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.
Say are not women truly then,
Styled but the shadows of us men? [ Ben Jonson ]
The first men that our Saviour dear
Did choose to wait upon Him here,
Blest fishers were; and fish the last
Food was, that He on earth did taste:
I therefore strive to follow those,
Whom He to follow Him hath chose. [ Izaak Walton ]
We must follow, not force Providence. [ William Shakespeare ]
He never is crowned
With immortality, who fears to follow
Where airy voices lead. [ Keats ]
Content to follow when we lead the way. [ Homer ]
Through perils both of wind and limb.
Through thick and thin she follow'd him. [ Butler ]
Follow the river and you will get to sea. [ Proverb ]
Master, go on, and I will follow thee
To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty. [ William Shakespeare ]
Wherever the fates lead us let us follow. [ Virgil ]
He that sends a fool, means to follow him. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Admonished, let us follow better counsels. [ Virgil ]
I will this dreary blank of absence make,
A noble task-time, and will therein strive
To follow excellence, and to overtake
More good than I have won since yet I live. [ Francis Kemble ]
We must not stint
Our necessary actions, in the fear
To cope malicious censurers; which ever,
As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow
That is new trimmed, but benefit no further
Than vainly longing. [ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII ]
Curst be the gold and silver which persuade
Weak men to follow far fatiguing trade!
The lily peace outshines the silver store,
And life is dearer than the golden ore.
Yet money tempts us over the desert brown,
To every distant mart and wealthy town. [ Collins ]
If honor calls, where'er she points the way
The sons of honor follow, and obey. [ Churchill ]
To follow foolish precedents, and wink
With both our eyes, is easier than to think. [ Cowper ]
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. [ George Chapman ]
Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye,
Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare,
Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. [ Smollett ]
It is no shame to follow the better precedent. [ Ben Jonson ]
We are not to lead events, but to follow them. [ Epictetus ]
The rich follow wealth, and the poor the rich. [ Proverb ]
Follow your honest convictions, and be strong. [ William M. Thackeray ]
But when the fox hath once got in his nose,
He'll soon find means to make the body follow. [ William Shakespeare ]
What matter though the scorn of fools be given,
If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven! [ Mrs. Hale ]
A joyful evening may follow a sorrowful morning. [ Proverb ]
His eloquence is classic in its style,
Not brilliant with explosive coruscations
Of heterogeneous thoughts, at random caught.
And scattered like a shower of shooting stars,
That end in darkness: no; - his noble mind
Is clear, and full, and stately, and serene.
His earnest and undazzled eye he keeps
Fixed on the sun of Truth, and breathes his words
As easily as eagles cleave the air,
And never pauses till the height is won;
And all who listen follow where he leads. [ Mrs. Hale ]
If pains be a pleasure to you, profit will follow. [ Proverb ]
Books follow manners; manners do not follow books. [ T. Gautier ]
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow. [ Colton ]
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. [ Bacon ]
You may follow him long ere a shilling drop from him. [ Proverb ]
Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings. [ Dante ]
Whither the fates lead virtue will follow without fear. [ Lucan ]
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow customs. [ Montaigne ]
If we follow the truth it will bring us out safe at last. [ Emerson ]
Honour acquired is an earnest of that which is to follow. [ La Roche ]
The enthusiast suffers his imagination to follow his heart. [ G. Crabb ]
Faith and piety are rare among the men who follow the camp. [ Lucan ]
One woe doth tread upon another's heel, so fast they follow. [ William Shakespeare ]
I see and approve the better course, but I follow the worse. [ Ovid ]
Some must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Be it your care to follow; with me for your guide you will be safe. [ Ovid ]
You who follow wealth and power with unremitting ardour,
The more in this you look for bliss, you leave your view the farther. [ Burns ]
As birds are made to fly and rivers to run, so the soul to follow duty. [ Ramayana ]
To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier. [ Balzac ]
Duty only frowns when you flee from it; follow it, and it smiles upon you. [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]
When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely. [ Louis the Eleventh ]
When a blind man flourishes the ancient, woe be unto those that follow him. [ Proverb ]
The only way to please God is to follow the good inclinations of our nature. [ Alfred Mercier ]
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong drink. [ Bible ]
One loves wholly but once - the first time: loves that follow are less involuntary. [ La Bruyere ]
If we succeed in acquiring the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow. [ Sir John Lubbock ]
You who forget your friends, meanly to follow after those of a higher degree, are a snob. [ Thackeray ]
Let others seek security. My most wretched fortune is secure; for there is no fear of worse to follow. [ Ovid ]
I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances. [ Cicero ]
Thee, Fortune, I follow; hence far all treaties past; to fate I commit myself, and the arbitrament of war. [ Lucan on the crossing of the Rubicon by Caesar ]
I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]
Favourable chance is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe in. [ George Eliot ]
It is the habit of party in England to ask the alliance of a man of genius, but to follow the guidance of a man of character. [ Lord John Russell ]
We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example, we will shine for everyone to follow. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]
A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it. [ Coleridge ]
Applause waits on success: the fickle multitude, like the light straw that floats along the street, glide with the current still, and follow fortune. [ Franklin ]
The Stoic thought by slandering Happiness to woo her; by shunning to win her; and proudly presumed that, by fleeing her, she would turn and follow him. [ Arliss ]
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I cannot reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. [ Louisa May Alcott ]
Your estate, your home, and your pleasing wife must be left, and of these trees which you are rearing, not one shall follow you, their short-lived owner, except the hateful cypresses. [ Horace ]
The strong man is the wise man; the man with the gift of method, of faithfulness, of valour; who has insight into what is what, into what will follow out of what, the eye to see and the hand to do. [ Carlyle ]
Avoid that which an enemy tells you to do; for if you follow his advice, you will smite your knees with the hand of sorrow. If he shows you a road straight as an arrow, turn from it and go the other way. [ Saadi ]
Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The wisest of us must, for by far the most part, judge like the simplest; estimate importance by mere magnitude, and expect that which strongly affects our own generation, will strongly affect those that are to follow. [ Carlyle ]
Of permanent griefs there are none, for they are but clouds. The swifter they move through the sky. the more follow after them; and even the immovable ones are absorbed by the other, and become smaller till they vanish. [ Richter ]
Give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he will be equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time; he will do it better; he will persevere longer. [ Carlyle ]
Thinkers who trace systems of philosophy are merely impelled by an innate instinct; they know that their precepts, however excellent, are not suitable to the majority: the wisdom may be admired by many, but few will follow the principles. [ De Finod ]
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. [ Franklin ]
Give thy friend counsel wisely and charitably, but leave him to his liberty whether he will follow thee or no; and be not angry if thy counsel be rejected, for advice is no empire, and he is not my friend that will be my judge whether I will or no. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Every man must think in his own way; for on his own pathway he always finds a truth, or a measure of truth, which is helpful to him in his life; only he must not follow his own bent without restraint; he must control himself; to follow mere naked instinct does not beseem a man. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars. [ Whipple ]
Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it. [ Rousseau ]
There are two things which help to make music - melody and harmony. Now, as most of you know, there is melody in music when the different sounds of the same tune follow each other so as to give us pleasure; there is harmony in music when different sounds, instead of following each other, come at the same time so as to give us pleasure. [ C. Kingsley ]
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing. A forfeited bond twinkles in the hard smile. But follow him to an altar-piece. His Apostle has caught a stray tint from his usurer. Features of exquisite beauty are seen and loved; but the old nature of avarice frets under the glow of devotion. Pathos staggers on the edge of farce. [ Willmott ]
Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: Soldiers, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries; - those who love freedom and their country may follow me.
That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life. [ Kossuth ]
When I look upon the tombs of the great, every motion of envy dies; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire forsake me: when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I reflect how vain it is to grieve for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying beside those who deposed them, when I behold rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men who divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the frivolous competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. [ Addison ]
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge: it is immortal as the heart of men. If the labors of the men of science should ever create any revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the poet will then sleep no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself. The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of the respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings. If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on. as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the being thus produced as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man. [ Wordsworth ]