Presume to lay their hand upon the ark
Of her magnificent and awful cause. [ Cowper ]

Let none presume to wear an undeserved dignity. [ William Shakespeare ]

Let no man presume to give advice to others, that has not first given counsel to himself. [ Seneca ]

Let us be content, in work, to do the thing we CAN and not presume to fret because it's little. [ E. B. Browning ]

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability. [ Burke ]

Nay, but weigh well what you presume to swear. Oaths are of dreadful weight! and, if they are false. Draw down damnation. [ Sir Thomas Overbury ]

As for the ass's behavior in such nice circumstances, whether he would starve sooner than violate his neutrality to the two bundles of hay, I shall not presume to determine. [ Addison ]

We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has not the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching shrieking fish. [ Leigh Hunt ]