O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive. [ Sir Walter Scott, Marmion ]

Practise thrift, or else you'll drift. [ Proverb ]

They only babble that practise not reflection. [ Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ]

The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame,
But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same. [ Cunningham ]

What's come to perfection perishes,
Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven;
Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes. [ Robert Browning ]

Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven. [ Robert Browning ]

How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise then? [ Ben Jonson ]

He that cannot keep his mind to himself cannot practise any considerable thing whatever. [ Carlyle ]

Forgiveness, that noblest of all selfdenial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another. [ Colton ]

No, a monosyllable, the easiest learned by the child, but the most difficult to practise by the man, contains within it the import of a life, the weal or woe of an eternity. [ Johnson ]

We rarely repent of having spoken too little, very often of having spoken too much: a maxim this which is old and trivial, and which every one knows, but which every one does not practise. [ La Bruyère ]

The habit of exaggeration, like dram-drinking, becomes a slavish necessity, and they who practise it pass their lives in a kind of mental telescope, through whose magnifying medium they look upon themselves and everything around them. [ J. B. Owen ]

Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain. [ Johnson ]