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• The most advantageous, pre-eminent thing thou canst do is not to exhibit nor display thyself within the limits of our galaxy
  but rather depart instantaneously whence thou even now standest and flee to yet another rotten planet in the universe, if thou canst have the good fortune to find one....
• Now, reader, I have told my dream to thee; See if thou canst interpret it to me Or to thyself, or neighbor.
  But take heed Of misinterpreting; for that, instead Of doing good, will but thyself abuse By misinterpreting evil issues....
• Love, the sole disease thou canst not cure. -- Alexander Pope
• Though thou canst not forebear to love, forebear to link. -- Sir Walter Raleigh
• What! canst thou say all this and never blush? -- William Shakespeare
• The Spanish fleet thou canst not see, because--it is not yet in sight!
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Critic, Act ii, Sc. 2...
• Be always displeased with what thou art, if you desirest to attain to what thou art no
  for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest....
• Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
  -- Old Testament -- Job xxxviii, 31...
• Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? -- Old Testament -- Job xli, 1