Thou Quotes
1757 Thou quotes by 624 unique authors
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O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, even our brothers, the animals, to whom Thou gavest the earth as…
— Saint Basil
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All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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From the creation learn to admire thy Lord! And if any of the things thou see exceed thy comprehension, and thou are not able to…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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There's not a plant or flower below but makes Thy glories known, And clouds arise, and tempests blow by order from Thy throne; While all…
— Isaac Watts
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Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to…
— Seneca the Younger
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If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.
— Friedrich Schiller
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Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
— Horace
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
— Martial
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If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.
— William Wordsworth
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Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.
— William Wordsworth
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Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
— William Shakespeare
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If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.
— Unknown Author
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If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.
— Benjamin Franklin
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A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As…
— William Shakespeare
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And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?
— William Shakespeare
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O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and…
— William Shakespeare
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The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can…
— William Shakespeare
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