Tis Quotes
609 quotes by 262 authors
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Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie…
— John Donne
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'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's.
— John Donne
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Who does his task from day to day and meets whatever comes his way, Believing God has willed it so, has found real greatness here…
— Edgar Guest
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Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that…
— John Donne
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The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall sin the lover's hire.
— William Blake
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Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen; that when We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds Of love to men.
— Alice Cary
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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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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
— Alexander Pope
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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has…
— Watchman Nee
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Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!
— William Shakespeare
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But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If you…
— William Shakespeare
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Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.
— Malaclypse the Younger
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Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.
— John Wilmot
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'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls.
— Robert Browning
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Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign…
— John Donne
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Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in various…
— William Davenant
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And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and the earth, and no man's…
— John Donne
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To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always…
— Mary Astell
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