"Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay."
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"We were not born to sue, but to command."
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"If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command."
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"Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command."
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"You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable."
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"He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves."
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"Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe."
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"Objectives are not commands; they are commitments."
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"I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently."
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"Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear."
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"Blessing come to you when you are obedient to God’s commands."
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"Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence."
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"The mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to be moved, and such readiness is there that the command is scarce to be distinguished from the obedience. Yet the mind is mind, and the hand is body. The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it obeyeth not. Whence this monstrous thing? and why is it?"
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"Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect."
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"I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand."
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"Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us."
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"The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood."
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"Millions of angels are at God's command."
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"To wheedle and coax is safer than to command."
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"Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command."
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