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I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 3:7.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms126:5^6.

And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew11:3.

And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not dayand night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 4:8.

He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 22:20^1.

I must have two you knowto come and go.One to come, and one to go.

-Dodgson
  The King speaking of his messengers. Through the Looking-Glass, ch.7,'The Lion and the Unicorn'.

Then come on, come on, and yield A savour like unto a blessed field, When the bedabbled morn Washes the golden ears of corn.

- Robert Herrick
  'A Nuptial Song, or Epithalamion, on Sir Clipseby Crew and His Lady'.

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark,10 Oct, alluding to Jeremiah Markland. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

Come and take them.

-Leonidas   d.480
Attributed reply when Xerxes summoned him to surrender his weapons at Thermopylae. Quoted in Plutarch,  Apophthegmata Laconica.

He watched his restless hands, surprised they had remembered to come with him.

- Sir V(ictor) S(awdon) Pritchett
Mr Beluncle, ch.15.

The Shape of Things to Come.

- H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells
  Title of book.