A stumble may prevent a fall. [ Proverb ]
Care not, and that will prevent horns. [ Proverb ]
Guards from outward harms are sent;
Ills from within thy reason must prevent. [ John Dryden ]
Employment and hardships prevent melancholy. [ Johnson ]
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better. [ Edwards ]
It is easier to prevent ill habits than to break them. [ Proverb ]
Wine colors the face, to prevent the appearance of modesty. [ A. de Musset ]
Nobody loves heartily unless people take pains to prevent it. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
He that gives time to resolve, gives time to deny, and warning to prevent. [ Proverb ]
Alas! how difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt. [ Ovid ]
The great objection to new books is, that they prevent our reading old ones. [ Joseph Joubert ]
To punish and not prevent, is to labour at the pump, and leave open the leak. [ Proverb ]
Wise men never sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail. [ William Shakespeare ]
The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest. [ Dr. Watts ]
Trifling precautions will often prevent great mischiefs; as a slight turn of the wrist parries a mortal thrust. [ R. Sharp ]
Pride, though it cannot prevent the holy affections of nature from beings felt, may prevent them from being shown. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. [ Froude ]
Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
If as much care were taken to perpetuate a race of fine men as is done to prevent the mixture of ignoble blood in horses and dogs, the genealogy of every one would be written on his face and displayed in his manners. [ Voltaire ]
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears otherwise gives advantage to the danger; it is less folly not to endeavor the prevention of the evil thou fearest than to fear the evil which thy endeavor cannot prevent. [ Quarles ]
Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about. [ Colton ]
Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion. [ Fielding ]
It is a hasty conclusion, and one which marks an inadequate apprehension of the nature of friendship, to say we lose a friend when he dies; death is not only unable to quench the genuine sense of friendship between the living and the dead, but it is also unable to prevent the going forth of a real feeling of friendship for the dead whom, it may be, we have never known at all. [ H. C. Trumbull ]