Like a man to double business bound,

I stand in pause where I shall first begin,

And both neglect.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3.

You stand in your owne light.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,

Straining upon the start.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Our compell'd sins

Stand more for number than for accompt.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 4.

Stand not upon the order of your going,

But go at once.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.

This is the place. Stand still, my steed,—

Let me review the scene,

And summon from the shadowy past

The forms that once have been.

Henry W Longfellow (1807-1882): A Gleam of Sunshine.

I have set my life upon a cast,

And I will stand the hazard of the die:

I think there be six Richmonds in the field.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 4.

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;

Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674): Seek and Find.

Ho! stand to your glasses steady!

'T is all we have left to prize.

A cup to the dead already,—

Hurrah for the next that dies!

Bartholomew Dowling: Revelry in India.

A song for our banner! The watchword recall

Which gave the Republic her station:

"United we stand, divided we fall!"

It made and preserves us a nation!

The union of lakes, the union of lands,

The union of States none can sever,

The union of hearts, the union of hands,

And the flag of our Union forever!

George P Morris (1802-1864): The Flag of our Union.