Thou Quotes
1757 Thou quotes by 624 unique authors
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If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee,…
— Saint Augustine
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Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under…
— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
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Ere thou sleepest, gently lay Every troubled thought away; Put off worry and distress As thou puttest off thy dress; Drop thy burden and thy…
— Henry Van Dyke
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all…
— Alexander Pope
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In a world that has lost a sense of sin, one sin remains: Thou shalt not make people feel guilty (except, of course, about making…
— Christopher West
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Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose in…
— Albertus Magnus
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Let the foundation of thy affection be virtue, then make the building as rich as glorious as thou canst; if the foundation be beauty or…
— Francis Quarles
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows…
— William Shakespeare
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ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee…
— William Shakespeare
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Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
— Marcus Aurelius
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If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung.
— Charles Lamb
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Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant…
— Aeschylus
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Thou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life.
— Guru Arjan
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I have always been reasonably leery of religion because there are so many edicts in religion, 'thou shalt not,' or 'thou shalt.' I wanted my…
— Gene Roddenberry
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Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from…
— Unknown Author
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One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.
— Martin Buber
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If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the…
— Francis Quarles
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His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals; - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down…
— William Wordsworth
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Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
— William Shakespeare
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How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and…
— William Shakespeare
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The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they say, the name…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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