To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright With joy the spirit moves and burns; So up to thee! O Fount of Light!… — John Sterling Copy Share Image
Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity? Cast off thy care, leave Allah’s plans to… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Yet, O thou beautiful rose! Queen rose so fair and sweet. What were lover or crown to thee, without the clay at… — Julia Caroline Dorr Copy Share Image
We love but while we may; And therefore is my love so large for thee, Seeing it is not bounded save by… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
O Heavenly Father, convert my religion from a name to a principle! Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
O Mother of God! If I place my confidence in thee, I shall be saved; if I am under thy protection, I… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action;… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
There are three relations [between thee and other things]: the one to the body which surrounds thee; the second to the divine… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue.… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I would build a cloudy House For my thoughts to live in; When for earth too fancy-loose And too low for Heaven!… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come? — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Copy Share Image
When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may… — Elizabeth Fry Copy Share Image
I thank Thee, O Lord, that Thou hast so set eternity within my heart that no earthly thing can ever satisfy me… — John Baillie Copy Share Image
As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself,… — Bernard Barton Copy Share Image
I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to… — George Edward Moore Copy Share Image
Son, if a maiden love thee, thou shalt appear handsome in her sight; she shall praise thine eyes, and the corners of… — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
After thee accumulation of too much history we have lost our innocence, we cannot easily believe in any explanations. We describe rather… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Sounds a little like my quote for the week. Do you want to hear it? This is by Augustine: O soul, He… — Robin Jones Gunn Copy Share Image
To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride: Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire… — John Gay Copy Share Image
Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
O, heavenly Father: we thank thee for food and remember the hungry. We thank thee for health and remember the sick. We… — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
Bid faith look through the key-hole of the promise, and tell thee what it sees there laid up for him that overcomes;… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I cannot be content with less than heaven; Living, and comprehensive of all life. Thee, universal heaven, celestial all; Thee, sacrjd seat… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
When the flesh presents thee with delights, then present thyself with dangers; where the world possesses thee with vain hopes, there possess… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image