Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death…

While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.

— William Shakespeare

Be useful where thou livest.

— George Herbert

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.

— John Milton

“whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in…

— Marcus Aurelius

Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of…

— Herman Melville

“Thou - why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard than thou hast.…

— William Shakespeare

O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do,…

— Thomas Carlyle

Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

When peace like a river, attendeth my way / When sorrow like sea billows roll / Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to…

— Horatio Spafford

“Thou hast come into being by the toil; the work of the gods thou art the way of holy order. With the Vasus, the…

— Aparna Sinha

Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

— Bible

Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.

— Aristophanes

Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.

— George Herbert