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John Donne

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JOHN DONNE Thou hast death in thy house, and dost bewaile anothers.
GEORGE HERBERT For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the opp...
BIBLE Work thou not on energized equipment, for if thou dost, thy fellow workers will surely buy beers fo...
THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT FOR TECHNICIANS Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that...
RICHARD HENRY DANA Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH See! he sinks Without a word; and his ensanguined bier Is vacant in the west, while far and n...
REV. FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
BIBLE Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, ...
CHRISTOPHER LOVE Speak to me as to thy thinkings,
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
The w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold th...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Why dost thou gaze upon the sky?
O that I were yon spangled sphere!
Then every star should b...
SIR THOMAS MORE Gentle Spring!--in sunshine clad, Well dost thou thy power display! For Winter maketh the ligh...
CHARLES D'ORLEANS (COMTE D'ANGOULEME) If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It sits on an east-west axis, so the sun comes in all day long through floor to ceiling windows.
BARBARA CANDEE Thou has heard the words of Christ. . . .
Dost thou weep, when I have thee, Poor soul, what ai...
RICHARD BAXTER Thou art death's fool;For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shunAnd yet runn'st toward him still.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O child! O new-born denizen Of life's great city! on thy head The glory of morn is shed, ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear, It is not n...
JOHN KEBLE Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare n...
BIBLE Everything grows, but remember everything must fade too. Don't waste time going through the motions.
SUZANNE KRAMB Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
ELIZABETH SMART Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians ...
BIBLE Lord, come away; Why dost thou stay? Thy road is ready and thy paths made straight With longing e...
JEREMY TAYLOR We played half-hearted. We went through the motions and let them push us around.
KIP HARRIS When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.
IEYASU TOKUGAWA Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 Matthew xi. 27. JESUS, th...
CHARLES WESLEY Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villany! Thou ever strong upon t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for ...
JOHN OWEN Prophet of evil! never hadst thou yet A cheerful word for me. To mark the signs Of coming mi...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
WILLIAM PENN If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.
WILLIAM PENN Hail to thee, far above the rest In joy of voice and pinion! Thou, linnet! in thy green array...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Jesus! why dost Thou love me so? What hast Thou seen in me To make my happiness so great, So dear...
FREDRICK WILLIAM FABER And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
BIBLE Dost thou
Not feel them slip,
How cold! how cold! the moon's
Thin wavering finger-...
ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtu...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what...
JOSEPH ADDISON Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity...
JOHN KEATS Death Be Not Proud

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty ...
JOHN DONNE O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat ...
WILLIAM BLAKE Keep yourself clean and bright. You are the windows through which you must view the world.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor
LEONARDO DA VINCI Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought / As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
JOHN KEATS Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above! Beneath the slidi...
JOHN DRYDEN When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speakin...
JACOB BOEHME Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the fi...
BIBLE Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the s...
JAMES MACPHERSON And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell...
BIBLE Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy b...
LUCY LARCOM CASSIO: Dost thou hear, my honest friend?
CLOWN: No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?
WILLIAM C. BRYANT Where hast thou wandered. gentle gale, to find The perfumes thou dost bring?
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, T...
ABRAHAM COWLEY Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that...
THOMAS HOOD In the first half, we just went through the motions. Getting in the passing lanes helped us get some...
ED ANDES The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man do...
JOHN STEINBECK Fear no more the heat o the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, ho...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thoughtAs doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
When old age shal...
JOHN KEATS This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To live simply by going through the motions is not living
N. S. COLE Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou stil...
EDMUND C. STEDMAN Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with...
BIBLE O friend, my bosom said,
Through thee alone the sky is arched.
Through thee the rose is red; RALPH WALDO EMERSON Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 I know Thee, Saviour, Who T...
CHARLES WESLEY Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles?
JAMES ST. JAMES Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get...
MARY FRANCES BERRY Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it,
Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, EMILY DICKINSON And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor la...
BIBLE For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if t...
BIBLE And then may chance thee to repent
The time that thou hast lost and spent
To cause thy lov...
THOMAS WYATT When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Fo...
TOKUGAWA IEYASU O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red wit...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD If we have never sought, we seek Thee now;
Thine eyes burn through the dark, our only stars; EDWARD SHILLITO Ask the womb of a woman, and say unto her, If thou bring forth children, why dost thou it not togeth...
COMPTON GAGE Show us Thy ways oh Lord; teach us Thy ways to walk faithfully; teach us, O Lord, how to walk; lead ...
WILLIAM PENNINGTON From the unruly crowd of demands, we must chose those that are important to us.
JIM GENOVESE And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
BIBLE England! awake! awake! awake! / Jerusalem thy sister calls! / Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death...
WILLIAM BLAKE Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Great art Thou, O Lord, and highly to be praise...
C. I. SCOFIELD O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous Is tha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That's maturity and focus. When a team makes a run at us, I don't want to have to call a timeout. We...
ED SWANSON February, fill the dyke With what thou dost like.
THOMAS TUSSER Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like.
THOMAS TUSSER O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
SIR JACOB ASTLEY If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or th...
BIBLE But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Fa...
BIBLE Going through the bad times the last three seasons not making the playoffs and right now still cheer...
MAXIM AFINOGENOV But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young me...
BIBLE Through the Thou a person becomes I.
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...
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But swear thou think'st I love thee, and no m...
JOHN DONNE Annunciation

Salvation to all that will is nigh;
That All, which always is all every...
JOHN DONNE And Jacob came clothed in vile harsh attire, But to supplant, and with gainful intent; God clothed H...
JOHN DONNE Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call,
for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.
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Who died before the god of Love was born.
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And his first minute, after noon, is night.
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Then where...
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This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday,
Running it never runs...
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Make of so noble individual parts
On...
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Years an...
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But yet the body is his book.
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I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I
Did, till we lov'd? We...
JOHN DONNE Licence my roving hands, and let them go
Before, behind, between, above, below.
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She gives the best light to his sphere;
Or each ...
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Should vanish from her clothes into her bed,
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JOHN DONNE For I / Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
JOHN DONNE like gold to airy thinness beat
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JOHN DONNE Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side.
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By these we reach divinity
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JOHN DONNE She, and comparisons are odious.
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JOHN DONNE By our first strange and fatal interview.
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JOHN DONNE I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
JOHN DONNE When my grave is broke up again / Some second guest to entertain.
JOHN DONNE ...but come bad chance
And wee joyne to it our strength
And wee teach it art and length JOHN DONNE My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, but after one such love can love no more.
JOHN DONNE For, thus friends absent speak.
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JOHN DONNE My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find ...
DR. JOHN DONNE No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face; Young beauti...
DR. JOHN DONNE I have just got a new theory of eternity.
DR. JOHN DONNE If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time,...
DR. JOHN DONNE He was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it; And what that word did make it,...
DR. JOHN DONNE We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distin...
DR. JOHN DONNE When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get s...
ELENA DELLE DONNE That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it'...
ELENA DELLE DONNE I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than fak...
ELENA DELLE DONNE Volleyball was a lot of fun, but I knew it wasn't my sport.
ELENA DELLE DONNE I'm doing whatever I have to do to help my team win. So, instead of being focused on anything fr...
ELENA DELLE DONNE As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real c...
ELENA DELLE DONNE It's expensive to raise a child with special needs, which people don't even think about. Emo...
ELENA DELLE DONNE I could do whatever I wanted as a girl, whatever my brother did. I could play against the boys and a...
ELENA DELLE DONNE My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER