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Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.


Francis Quarles

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JOHN LOGAN And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor la...
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BIBLE You can't love thy neighbor, if you can't love thyself.
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BIBLE Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, ...
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THOMAS À KEMPIS Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any like...
BIBLE Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt i...
BIBLE Do not thou hasten above the most Highest: for thy haste is in vain to be above him, for thou hast m...
COMPTON GAGE If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or th...
BIBLE Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, ...
JOHN LOGAN Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant, who should sit...
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BIBLE Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with...
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LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
OTTO RANK Thou hast death in thy house, and dost bewaile anothers.
GEORGE HERBERT Go thy way, and tell my people, the people of thy Lord God what manner of things, and how great wond...
COMPTON GAGE Christmas Eve A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Tho...
GEORGE MACDONALD Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
LOUISE BEAL For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance...
BIBLE Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, ...
CHRISTOPHER LOVE Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the fi...
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BIBLE Thou hast fair forms that move With queenly tread; Thou hast proud fanes above Thy might...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Bird of the amber beak, Bird of the golden wing! Thy dower is thy carolling; Thou hast n...
EDMUND C. STEDMAN Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Thou that so stoutly hast resisted me, Give me thy gold, if thou hast any gold; For I have bou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemo...
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THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT FOR TECHNICIANS Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil ...
TACITUS Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil ...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will n...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will n...
EMILY DICKINSON If thou desirest to be safe, turn at once in thy emptiness to God. If thou hast been inconsistent, h...
JOHANNES TAULER Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the s...
JAMES MACPHERSON Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done?
Aaron: That which thou canst not undo.
Chiron: Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was ...
BIBLE Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till...
AUSTIN DOBSON Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till...
HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Dee...
WILLIAM BLAKE Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
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THOMAS À KEMPIS If thy meditation tends to fill thy note-book with notions, and good sayings, concerning God, and no...
RICHARD BAXTER But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with t...
BIBLE Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces.
TERRY PRATCHETT And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
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JOHN DONNE All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not thou t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still...
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BIBLE Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
FRANCIS QUARLES Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse ...
GEORGE HERBERT Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.
BIBLE Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.
BIBLE Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the g...
BIBLE Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.
BIBLE Thou hast given a right judgment, but why judge thou not thyself also?
COMPTON GAGE Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
BIBLE Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.
BIBLE Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
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BIBLE If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
WILLIAM PENN Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for ...
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KHALED HOSSEINI And these few precepts in thy memory
Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
BIBLE Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
BIBLE Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him ...
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BIBLE Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant...
BIBLE O thou great, unknown Power! Thou Almighty God, who hast lighted up reason in my breast and blessed ...
ROBERT BURNS Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy bl...
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FRANCIS CHAN Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss;...
FRANCIS BACON Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
DICK FRANCIS Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
FRANCIS BACON If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to ...
FRANCIS BACON No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
FRANCIS BACON Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.
FRANCIS BACON Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
FRANCIS BACON Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must...
FRANCIS BACON The essence of a man is found in his faults.
FRANCIS PICABIA For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And per...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equalit...
FRANCIS PICABIA A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
FRANCIS PICABIA Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
FRANCIS PICABIA To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the b...
FRANCIS BACON Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
FRANCIS BACON Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend...
FRANCIS BACON The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
FRANCIS BACON For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal,...
FRANCIS BACON