Oh, fear not in a world like this.
And thou shalt know ere long, -
Know how sublime a thing it is,
To suffer and be strong. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Light Of Stars ]

Bear the burden of the present,
Let the morrow bear its own;
If the morning sky be pleasant.
Why the coming night bemoan?

Holy strivings nerve and strengthen,
Long endurance wins the crown;
When the evening shadows lengthen,
Thou shalt lay the burden down. [ Thomas Mackellar ]

Whosoever is king, you shalt be his man. [ Proverb ]

Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense
Of service which thou renderest. [ E. B. Browning ]

Sow good works and you shalt reap gladness. [ Proverb ]

Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The stars shall fade away, the Sun himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years;
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amid the war of elements,
The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds. [ Joseph Addison ]

Let go desire, and thou shalt lay hold on peace. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

When wrapt in fire, the realms of ether glow,
And Heaven's last thunder shakes the world below,
Thou, undismayed, shalt o'er the ruins smile,
And light thy torch at Nature's funeral pile. [ Thomas Campbell ]

Thou shalt have moon-shine in your mustard-pot for it. [ Proverb ]

Be good, sweet child, and let who will be clever,
Do noble things, not dream them all day long;
Thus shalt thou make life, death, and the vast forever. [ Charles Kingsley ]

When the devil is a vicar, then you shalt be his clerk. [ Proverb ]

Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain. [ Johann C. F. Von Schiller ]

Forever haltless hurries Time, the Durable to gain,
Be true, and thou shalt fetter Time with everlasting chain. [ Schiller ]

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, thou shalt be buried in a good old age. [ Genesis ]

First keep thyself in peace, and then thou shalt be able to keep peace among others. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Without eyes thou shalt want light: profess not the knowledge therefore that thou hast not. [ Ecclus ]

Trust in the Lord, and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. [ Bible ]

Take thou the beam out of thine own eye; then shalt thou see clearly to take the mote out of thy brother's. [ Jesus ]

If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal. [ Quarles ]

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 ]

Neither borrow money of a neighbour nor a friend, but of a stranger, where, paying for it, thou shalt hear no more of it. [ Lord Burleigh ]

If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. [ Bible ]

If thou kiss Wisdom's cheek and make her thine, she will breathe into thy lips divinity, and thou, like Phoebus, shalt speak oracle. [ Decker ]

Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs. [ Dante ]

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. Thou shalt not is their characteristic formula. [ Coleridge ]

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure. [ Sirach ]

To smell a fresh turf of earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul. Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return. [ Fuller ]

What was your dream? It seemed to me that a woman in white raiment, graceful and fair to look upon, came towards me and calling me by name said: On the third day, Socrates, thou shalt reach the coast of fertile Phthia. [ Plato ]

Learn, O student, the true wisdom. See yon bush aflame with roses, like the burning bush of Moses. Listen, and thou shalt hear, if thy soul be not deaf, how from out it, soft and clear, speaks to thee the Lord Almighty. [ Hafiz ]

How oft my guardian angel gently cried, Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see How he persists to knock and wait for thee! And, O! how often to that voice of sorrow, Tomorrow we will open, I replied. And when the morrow came I answered still, Tomorrow. [ Tome Burguillos ]

Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there. [ Quarles ]