Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Keep the common road and you are safe. Pr.

Keep the dogs near when thou suppest with the wolf. Eastern Pr.

Keep the doors of thy mouth from her that 30 lieth in thy bosom. Bible.

Keep the imagination sane; that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven. Hawthorne.

Keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother. Bible.

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools. Bible.

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Bible.

Keep thy mind always at its own disposal. 35 Thomas à Kempis.

Keep thyself perfectly still, however it may storm around thee. The more thou feelest thyself to be a man, so much the more dost thou resemble the gods. Goethe.

Keep to companions of your own rank. Goldsmith.