Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.
How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.
Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven, -
The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, -
Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven,
The habitants of earth.
If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.
Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such good.
O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.
Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.
If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.
Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.
Use thy duties, as Noah's dove did her wings, to carry thee to the ark of the Lord Jesus Christ, where only there is rest.
Indulge, and to thy genius freely give,
For not to live at ease is not to live.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.
The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.
When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.
Sounds of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass
If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.
My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.
Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels.
O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.
Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.
Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.
What soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence.
Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that every where I am in Thy Presence
What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
O sweet spontaneous earth how often has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty thou answereth them only with spring.
O my God, how true it is that we may have of Thy gifts and yet may be full of ourselves!
Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.
Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!
Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite.
Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.
Lord, to whom should we go? Thy words are the words of eternal life.
Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor.
If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.
Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.
Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.
Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and thy're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.
Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: "That women are timid:" And 'tis well they are--else there would beno dealing with them.
However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the sun from chaos.
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet.
David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard.
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.
I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.
Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be?
Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death
The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.
And to thy husband's will
Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.
E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream
thy flowing wounds supply,
redeeming love has been my theme,
and shall be till I die.
Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.
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