For just experience tells, in every soil, / That 10 those that think must govern those that toil. Goldsmith.
For knowledge is a barren tree and bare, / Bereft of God, and duty but a word, / And strength but tyranny, and love, desire, / And purity a folly. Lewis Morris.
For knowledge is a steep which few may climb, / While duty is a path which all may tread. Lewis Morris.
For let our finger ache, and it endues / Our other healthful members ev'n to that sense / Of pain. Othello, iii. 4.
For loan oft loses both itself and friend. Ham., i. 3.
For love of grace, / Lay not the flattering 15 unction to your soul / That not your trespass but my madness speaks. Ham., iii. 4.
For lovers' eyes more sharply sighted be / Than other men's, and in dear love's delight / See more than any other eyes can see. Spenser.
For man's well-being faith is properly the one thing needful; with it, martyrs, otherwise weak, can cheerfully endure the shame and the cross; and without it, worldlings puke up their sick existence by suicide in the midst of luxury. Carlyle.
For man there is but one misfortune, when some idea lays hold of him which exerts no influence upon his active life, or still more, which withdraws him from it. Goethe.
For men are brought to worse diseases / By taking physic than diseases, / And therefore commonly recover / As soon as doctors give them over. Butler.