To business that we love we rise betime, / And go to 't with delight. Ant. and Cleop., iv. 4.
To call a man ungrateful is to sum up all the evil he can be guilty of. Swift.
To carry on the feelings of childhood into the 15 powers of manhood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day, for perhaps forty years, has rendered familiar; this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talent. Coleridge.
To cast away a virtuous friend is as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best. Sophocles.
To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, / Assiduous wait upon her; / And gather gear by ev'ry wile / That's justified by honour; / Not for to hide it in a hedge, / Nor for a train attendant, / But for the glorious privilege / Of being independent. Burns.
To circumstances and custom the law must yield. Dan. Pr.
To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing. Chinese Pr.
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. 20 Hen. VIII., i. 1.
To confess Christ is, first, to believe righteously, truthfully, and continently; and, then, to separate ourselves from those who are manifestly or by profession rogues, liars, and fornicators. Ruskin.
To conquer inclination is difficult, but if habit, taking root, gradually associates itself with it, then it is unconquerable. Goethe.