entbehren

Updated: May 7, 2025

Here, amid a wide desert of caste and proscription, amid the heart-hurting slights and jars and vagaries of a deep race-dislike, lies this green oasis, where hot anger cools, and the bitterness of disappointment is sweetened by the springs and breezes of Parnassus; and here men may lie and listen, and learn of a future fuller than the past, and hear the voice of Time: "Entbehren sollst du, sollst entbehren."

W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk

Courage and honour alike told her that she would be defeated and undone did she attempt to meet and follow him openly in the paths of religion. Entbehren sollst du sollst entbehren! So, long before this date, she had chosen her line of action. She took no part in the movement, and she rarely set foot in the village church, which was close to her gates.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - The Case of Richard Meynell

And, as a sentimental argument against it, we were told by the Humanitarian Leaguers that it is 'obscene. This is just what might be expected, and bears out the foregoing remarks. But such saintly simplicity reminds us of the kind of squeamishness of which our old acquaintance Mephisto observes: Man darf das nicht vor keuschen Ohren nennen, Was keusche Herzen nicht entbehren konnen.

Henry J. (Henry John) Coke - Tracks of a Rolling Stone