We must first cross a valley before we regain a favourable and cheerful height; meanwhile, let us see how we can stroll through it with our friends pleasantly and profitably. Goethe.
We must first pray, and then labour; first implore the blessing of God, and use those means which he puts into our hands. Johnson.
We must have the real thing before we can 35 have a science of the thing. Froude.
We must hold by what is definite, and not split up our strength in many directions. Hegel.
We must, if we would husband life and not waste it, bravely resolve to dispense with the dispensable, to content ourselves with the minimum of want, to stake our reputation, if such be dear to us, upon intrinsic worth, and show once again, if we can, by our mere life and labour, what are the "roots of honour" and the "veins of wealth." Ed.
We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents. Macaulay.
We must labour unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious. Mme. Swetchine.
We must needs die, and are as water spilt on 40 the ground which cannot be gathered up again. Bible.
We must not arrogate to ourselves a spirit of forgiveness, until we have been touched to the quick where we are sensitive and borne it meekly. Ward Beecher.
We must not contradict, but instruct, him that contradicts us. Antisthenes.