Top 1200 Thou Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.

The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells The book of life the shining record tells. Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes After its own life-workings. A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt serve thyself by every sense, Of service which thou renderest.

O time! whose verdicts mock our own, the only righteous judge art thou!

Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.

All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.

Have I today done anything to fulfill the purpose for which Thou didst cause me to be born?

Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.

Go and walk with Nature; thou wilt find Full many a gem in her enchanted cup.

Whoa, boy, he told himself. Golden Rule for Demigods: Thou shalt not Hokey Pokey with psychos.

Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

Written in support of abolishing the Corn Laws, it became Elliott's most famous poem. The Peoples Anthem When wilt thou save the people Oh, God of mercy! When? Not kings and lords, but nations! Not thrones and crowns, but men! Flowers of thy heart, of God they are. Let them not pass like weeds, away Their heritage a sunless day! God save the people! When wilt thou save the people? Oh, God of mercy! When? The people Lord the people! Not thrones and crowns, but men! God save the people! Thine they are, Thy children, as thy angels fair, Save them from bondage and despair. God save the people!

Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.

wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.

Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Cousin?s Wife. Moses must have forgotten to write that one down

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

Answer not a fool according to his folly,lest thou also be like unto him.

O admirable Mother of God! How many sins have I committed for which thou hast obtained pardon for me, and how many others would I have committed if thou hadst not preserved me? How often have I seen myself on the brink of Hell in obvious danger of falling into it but for thy most benign hand which saved me? How often would the Roaring Lion of Hell have devoured and swallowed up my soul had not the charity of thy heart opposed him? Alas! Without thee, my dearest and my all-good Mother, where should I be today? I should be in the fiery furnace of Hell from which I would never emerge!

I believe in Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment, thou shall not speak unfavorably of another Republican.

Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.

And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

Ten masts make not the altitude Which thou hast perpendicularly fell. Thy life's a miracle.

If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening.

I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith.

If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more.

Thou shalt not steal. I seem to recall that being one of God’s I’d rather you didn’t lest I have to smite you into ash commandments.

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.

There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings.

Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, A good mouth-filling oath.

O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain!

'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.

Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator?

Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.

And the Law that once contained impossible demands -- Thou Shalt Not... -- actually becomes a promise we fulfill in you.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.

Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour.

When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.