Thou Quotes
1757 Thou quotes by 624 unique authors
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Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.
— Hafez
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Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!
— Teresa of Avila
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Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze…
— Julian Barnes
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Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart hitherto so dry,…
— Jean Baptiste Massillon
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Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.
— Charles Lamb
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O supreme and unapproachable light! O whole and blessed truth, how far art thou from me, who am so near to thee! How far removed…
— Anselm of Canterbury
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In sanskrit they say: "Tat twam asi" - thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you're flooded with immortality.
— Frederick Lenz
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If we keep the path of virtue undefiled through devout and true knowledge, and do not deviate to either side, we will experience the advent…
— Maximus the Confessor
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When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art…
— Jakob Bohme
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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth…
— Jakob Bohme
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Then Job fell to his knees and cried to the Lord, "Thine is the kingdom and the power and glory. Thou hast a good job.…
— Woody Allen
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Love that well which thou must leave ere long.
— William Shakespeare
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So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.
— Charles Dickens
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Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
— Elizabeth Smart
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Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.
— Homer
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The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.
— John Gregory Dunne
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Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain.
— Horatius Bonar
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Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.
— Stephen Crane
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Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride…
— Terry Eagleton
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Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.
— Angelina Grimke
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