Thee famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.
-- Aleister Crowley -
Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
And thou shalt in thy daughter see, This picture, once, resembled thee.
-- Ambrose Philips -
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
-- Angelus Silesius -
If there is no God for thee Then there is no God for me.
-- Anna Hempstead Branch -
All's well with thee if thou art in just hands.
-- Anne Reeve Aldrich -
Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee.
-- Augustus Toplady -
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
-- Bayard Taylor -
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend.
-- Catherine Killigrew -
I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
-- Charles Lamb -
If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me..
-- D. H. Lawrence -
And thou who thinkest to seek for me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not, unless thou know this mystery: that if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee
-- Doreen Valiente -
Get thee behind me Satan, and push me along. I'm kin to the devil.
-- Eazy-E -
O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay -
Jesu, the very thought of Thee With sweetness fills the breast.
-- Edward Caswall -
And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
For none can express thee, though all should approve thee. I love thee so, Dear, that I only can love thee.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
-- Epictetus -
I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!
-- Ferenc Kazinczy -
Teach us, Master, how to give All we have and are to Thee; Grant us, Saviour, while we live, Wholly, only Thine to be.
-- Frances Ridley Havergal -
Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.
-- Gelett Burgess -
Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.
-- Gelett Burgess -
But I have seen thee And thou art enough.
-- George Edward Moore -
Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee, It passed into thy lifelong regency.
-- Gilbert Parker -
It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee.
-- Girolamo Savonarola -
Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -
Whatever hath been written shall remain, Nor be erased nor written o'er again; The unwritten only still belongs to thee: Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.
-- Homer -
I seek refuge in Thee from every hope which would distract me.
-- Ibn Ata Allah -
Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds.
-- Ivan Panin -
Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.
-- James Allen -
Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee.
-- James Edmeston -
Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.
-- James Howell -
Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.
-- James I of Scotland -
Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
-- John Donne -
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.
-- John Donne -
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
-- John Gay -
Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.
-- John Heywood -
O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings
-- John Keats -
Abide with me from morn to eve, / For without Thee I cannot live: / Abide with me when night is nigh. / For without Thee I dare not die.
-- John Keble -
If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
And to thy husband's will Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.
-- John Milton -
Heaven Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to read His wondrous works.
-- John Milton -
The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.
-- John Milton -
Do that which is good, and no harm shall come to thee.
-- John Proctor -
If thy hope be any thing worth, it will purify thee from thy sins.
-- Joseph Alleine -
America! America! God shed His grace on thee.
-- Katharine Lee Bates -
Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon -
Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
Short is the little time which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
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.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
If I serve you in hopes of Paradise, deny me Paradise.If I serve thee in fear of hell, condemn me to hell.But if I love thee for love of thyself,then grant me thyself.
-- Mark Salzman -
No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree.
-- Martin Luther -
To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
-- Matthew Arnold -
ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.
-- Matthew Arnold -
God is bound to act, to pour Himself into thee as soon as He shall find thee ready
-- Meister Eckhart -
Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee.
-- Nathaniel Cotton -
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley -
My son ask for thyself another Kingdom, for that which I leave is too small for thee
-- Philip II of Macedon -
Thou art a woman, And that is saying the best and worst of thee.
-- Philip James Bailey -
My guitar, I sing of thee 'Tis with thee that I decoy And ensnare enchantingly the ladies I enjoy.
-- Pierre de Ronsard -
A pillow for thee will I bring,Stuffed with down of angel's wing.
-- Richard Crashaw -
I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not Honor more.
-- Richard Lovelace -
Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.
-- Robert Herrick -
The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius.
-- Robert Towne -
Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.
-- Saint Augustine -
God I bring each wounded child to Thee.
-- Sarah Fuller Flower Adams -
Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee. -
-- Suetonius -
We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!
-- T. S. Eliot -
Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
-- Thomas a Kempis -
O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
-- Thomas Otway -
How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy!
-- Tibullus -
Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone.
-- William Congreve -
Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.
-- William Gurnall -
Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smit thee.
-- William K. Kershner
