Lest
To listen.
Lust; desire; pleasure.
Last; least.
For fear that; that . . . not; in order that . . . not.
That (without the negative particle); -- after certain expressions denoting fear or apprehension.
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Lest Quotations
Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
William Shakespeare
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
Christina Rossetti
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
Epictetus
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
Abba Eban
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
Arthur Miller
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Francis Bacon
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop
Lest Translations
lest in German is geringere
lest in Hungarian is nehogy
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