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For thus thou wilt not be dissatisfied, if thou appliest thyself to smaller matters no further than is fit.

The Meditations 2004

For the needful for which thou appliest, go with a fresh and smiling face.

The Gulistan of Sa'di 2003

For thus thou wilt not be dissatisfied, if thou appliest thyself to smaller matters no further than is fit.

IV 1909

For if thou seest a horse hurrying down a precipice, thou appliest a bit and holdest him in with violence and lashest him frequently; although this is punishment, yet the punishment itself is the mother of safety.

NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889

For thus thou wilt not be dissatisfied, if thou appliest thyself to smaller matters no further than is fit.

Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius 1839

For thus thou wilt not be dissatisfied, if thou appliest thyself to smaller matters no further than is fit.

Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius 1839

If thou appliest them to our son Rothsay, thou must make them good to the letter, else mayst thou have bitter cause to rue the consequence.”

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

When thy servant Jacob practised an invention to procure spots in his sheep, [191] thou didst prosper his rods; and thou dost prosper thine own rods, when corrections procure the discovery of our spots, the humble manifestation of our sins to thee; till then thou mayst justly say, _The whole need not the physician_; [192] till we tell thee in our sickness we think ourselves whole, till we show our spots, thou appliest no medicine.

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601

If thou appliest them to our son Rothsay, thou must make them good to the letter, else mayst thou have bitter cause to rue the consequence. "

The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801