Thou Quotes

1757 Thou quotes by 624 unique authors

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine… — George Gissing
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on. — John Henry Newman
Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou? — Charles Spurgeon
The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favourite phantom;… — William C. Bryant
Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near. — John Keble
In the storm, like a prophet o’ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches; Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches....… — James Russell Lowell
That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the… — William Shakespeare
Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on,… — William Blake
Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting. — Robert Southey
Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain. — Michel de Montaigne
Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not. — William Shakespeare
Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar. — William Shakespeare
Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest ... — William Shakespeare
Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend ... — William Shakespeare
O war! thou son of Hell! — William Shakespeare
My Lord, my Lord! What hath Thou done lately? — Woody Allen
O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by… — John Updike
If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him… — William Penn
Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy… — William Penn
Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art… — Robert Kennedy
Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own? — Thomas Carlyle
A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill. — Thomas Carlyle
Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh,… — Thomas Carlyle

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