O Gott, wie schränkt sich Welt und Himmel ein, / Wenn unser Herz in seinen Schranken banget—O God, how contracted the world and heaven becomes when our heart becomes uneasy within its barriers. Goethe.
O guard thy roving thoughts with jealous care, for speech is but the dial-plate of thought; and every fool reads plainly in thy words what is the hour of thy thought. Tennyson.
O' guid advisement comes nae ill. Burns.
O Heaven! were man / But constant, he were 35 perfect; that one error / Fills him with faults; makes him run through all sins. Two Gent. of Ver., v. 4.
O Herz, versuch' es nur! so leicht ist's gut zu sein: / Und es zu scheinen ist so eine schwere Pein—O heart, only try! To be good is so easy, and to appear so is such a heavy burden. Rückert.
O homines ad servitutem paratos!—Oh, men, how ye prepare yourselves for slavery! Tac.
O how full of briars is this working-day world. As You Like It, i. 3.
O how wretched / Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours! / There is betwixt that smile he would aspire to, / That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, / More pangs and fears than wars or women have; / And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, / Never to hope again. Henry VIII., iii. 2.
O hush the noise, ye men of strife, / And hear the angels sing! Sears.
O, if this were seen, / The happiest youth—viewing his progress through / What perils past, what crosses to ensue—/ Would shut the book and sit him down and die. 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.