That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel. Goldsmith.
That voluntary debility, which modern language is content to term indolence, will, if it is not counteracted by resolution, render in time the strongest faculties lifeless, and turn the flame to the smoke of virtue. Johnson.
That warrior on his strong war-horse, fire flashes through his eyes; force dwells in his arm and heart; but warrior and war-horse are a vision; a revealed force, nothing more. Stately they tread the earth, as if it were firm substance. Fool! the earth is but a film; it cracks in twain, and warrior and war-horse sink beyond plummet's sounding. Carlyle.
That we devote ourselves to God is seen / In 25 living just as though no God there were. Browning.
That we shall die, we know; 'tis but the time / And drawing days out, that men stand upon. Julius Cæsar, iii. 1.
That we should find our national existence depend on selling manufactured cotton at a farthing an ell cheaper than any other people, is a most narrow stand for a great nation to base itself on. Carlyle.
That we would do, / We should do when we would; for this "would" changes, / And hath abatements and delays as many / As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; / And then this "should" is like a spendthrift's sigh, / That hurts by easing. Ham., iv. 7.
That were but a sorry art which could be comprehended all at once; the last point of which could be seen by one just entering its precincts. Goethe.
That which builds is better than that which is 30 built. Emerson.
That which can be done with perfect convenience and without loss, is not always the thing that most needs to be done, or which we are most imperatively required to do. Ruskin.