Lays Quotes
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When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.
Mahatma Gandhi
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All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.
William Cowper
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A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.
Caroline Norton
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Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.
Stevie Smith
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Time loves a new lay; and the dirge he is playing
Will change for you soon to a livelier strain.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em But you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
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Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
Henry Ward Beecher
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O would, beloved, that you lay
Under the dock-leaves in the ground,
While lights were paling one by one.
William Butler Yeats
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The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.
Charles Dickens
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Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung.
William Jones
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There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.
Rudyard Kipling