"You shall more command with years than with your weapons."
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"Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give."
"Give what You command and command what You will."
"It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her."
"When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush."
"To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God."
"Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do."
"Realize now the power that your words command if you simply choose them wisely."
"He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it"
"If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command."
"Kill if you will, but command me nothing!"
"All power is His and within His command."
"The inner eye does not see upon command."
"A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves."
"Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey."
"It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself."
"He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands."
"The command of custome is great."
"I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you."
"An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist."