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Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 11.
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“Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it.”
Proverbs 7.
Commentaries
Attributed to Metrodorus by Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, V, 14, as translated by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Clement of Alexandria, vol. II, in Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325, vol. XII, 1869, p. 300 https://archive.org/details/antenicenechris05donagoog/page/n314.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Jnana
To my Wife, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Eros http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2933.html, st. 1 (1899).
Poetry
“Count not that thou hast lived that day, in which thou hast not lived with God.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 117.
“Since Thou hast regarded me,
Grace and beauty hast Thou given me.”
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom
Context: Despise me not,
For if I was swarthy once
Thou canst regard me now;
Since Thou hast regarded me,
Grace and beauty hast Thou given me. ~ 33
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 94.