thou great star! what would be thy happiness if thou hadst…

Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.

— William Wordsworth

In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the…

— Francis Quarles

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!

— William Cowper

Darkness, thou first great parent of us all, Thou art our great original!

— Thomas Yalden

“Apply thy minde to be a vertuous man Auoyd ill company (the spoyle of youth;) To follow Vertues Lore doo what thou can, (Whereby…

— Richard Barnfield

O thou great, unknown Power! Thou Almighty God, who hast lighted up reason in my breast and blessed me with immortality! I have frequently…

— Robert Burns

“If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark; weave round them tragic graces; if even…

— Herman Melville

Oh that thou hadst like others been all words, And no performance.

— Philip Massinger

“Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all, What hast thou then more than thou hadst before? No love, my love, that…

— William Shakespeare

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

— William Shakespeare

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

— Ben Jonson

Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thou hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest.

— William Watson

“Ah! ah! wherefore didst thou not look at me? If thou hadst looked at me thou hadst loved me. Well I know that thou…

— Oscar Wilde

“Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor-John.”

— William Shakespeare