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Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it,What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Bible (Old Testament)— Isaiah 45:9.
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
— Psalms, IV. 8.
The best money can procure for thee is freedom to live in thy true self. It is more apt however to enslave than to liberate. It is good also when thou makest it a means to help thy fellow men; but here too it is easier to harm than to benefit: for the money thou givest another is useful to him only when it stimulates him to self-activity.
john lancaster spalding— p. 265 (Aphorisms and Reflections (1901))
Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?
— Isaiah 45:9 (KJV)
Born in the purple, born to joy and pleasance, Thou dost not toil nor spin, But makest glad and radiant with thy presence The meadow and the lin.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Flower-de-Luce, Stanza 3; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 282.
Poor deer, quoth he, thou makest a testament As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more To that which had too much.
— First Lord, Sc. i
— Quoting Jaques
Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are distinguished,As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples.Thou makest a Nile in the underworld,Thou bringest forth as thou desirestTo maintain the peopleAccording as thou madest them for thyself,The lord of all of them, wearying with them,The lord of every land, rising for them,The Aton of the day, great of majesty.
akhenaten— Great Hymn to the Aten, as translated in The Ancient Near East, Vol. 1 : An Anthology of Texts and Pictures (1958) by James B. Pritchard, p. 227
