Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Thomas Hardy
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Never will His love forget.
O fret not thyself nor let
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BIBLE How wild it was, to let it be.
T. S. ELIOT When the broken hearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer, let it be.
CHRISTOPHER CHASE Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.
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ELTON JOHN Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open...
JACK KORNFIELD Let Your name be praised, not mine: let Your work be magnified, not mine. Let Your holy name be bles...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some have said it's unconstitutional on its face, ... Let me be more polite: We're troubled; we're d...
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JOHN PAUL II Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your he...
ROY T. BENNETT Let it be then let it go.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your
wrath: Neither give place to the devi...
BIBLE Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.
AIDEN WILSON TOZER Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.
A.W. TOZER Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.
A. W. TOZER When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.
JOHN BUNYAN Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that so...
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BRIAN PENNINGTON Its not what the universe gives us that matters, but what we give the universe
LAUREN MYRACLE (LET IT SNOW) Let go of all your pain. May your heart be open to healing.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Let my thoughts about life be the inspiration to your heart.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
BIBLE My your heart never be bitter as dandelion greens but let it be sweet as honey and flow from your ac...
STARGAZER When we cut down an destroy rain forests we are not only killing living things that have been on thi...
GARY F EVANS... If it’s history, let it be history.
BEN TOLOSA Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied.
HODA KOTB "Let kindness be the flowers which bloom in your heart." ~ Tom Baker
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R.C. SPROUL Let your heart shine even more than your face. The beautiful contents of your heart can never be for...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Let me erase all your despairing thoughts;
I hate to see you brooding.
Confide your troubles in me,
...
DANI MROUE Let your wisdom guide you
On your own personal journey
By listening to your heart
Yo...
KAREN HACKEL You realize you've forgiven people, your past and yourself when you don't speak bad about them anymo...
SANHITA BARUAH Let me attain no envied wealth, let me not plunder cities, neither be taken in turn, and face life i...
AESCHYLUS Be awesome! Let your mind dance like a butterfly and your heart sing like a flower.
DEBASISH MRIDHA When you are in troubled and worried and sick at heart
And your plans are upset and your world ...
HELEN STEINER RICE Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters, let it be somewhat grave.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
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ALEXEI NAVALNY If my path is right, let it be your path; if your path is right, let it be my path!
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JOEL OSTEEN Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your
tutor. Suit the action to the word, t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE let my actions get your attention but let my intentions win your heart
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BRAD PITT Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he ...
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VICTOR MANN Let me pick up the pieces that lay scattered. Let me mend the heart, that I once with a lie shattere...
PHILIP T. M. Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it ...
BIBLE Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for t...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.
KAHLIL GIBRAN I don't know off hand. Let me ask Thomas and Scalia what they think.
HARRIET MIERS Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart.
ROY T. BENNETT Let your heart say “I Love You”? It should be the most spoken affirmation of the day… I love y...
ROXANA JONES The biggest thing is to let your voice be heard, let your story be heard.
DWYANE WADE Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her...
BIBLE Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.
ZIAD K. ABDELNOUR Let wisdom be your mother, and contentment your father. Let Truth be your brother - these are your b...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Whatever it may be, do not let your past be a stumbling block for your future progression of life.
CHANDRABABU V.S. Let your pain be a strategy, not a tragedy!
SUNALLURE Let the ‘why not’ philosophy be your life principle!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.
Either you just let the grudge go, or mak...
TOBA BETA Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely.
WALT DISNEY COMPANY Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to
utter any thing before God; for God...
BIBLE Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.
DAVY CROCKETT But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Lov...
KHALIL GIBRAN But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Lov...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Share your voice and your heart. Listen to how it falls in with the cosmic symphony. Let it be imper...
AMY MCTEAR Be like a lotus. Let the beauty of your heart speak. Be grateful to the mud, water, air and the ligh...
AMIT RAY And when all your faith is gone let it be me, if it's a friend you need let it be me
RAY LAMONTAGNE Let us be bold. Let us be brave. Let us be together.
BRAD HENRY Simple pleasures surround you, let them be seen.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: / That men ...
BIBLE Let your joy be in your journey - not in some distant goal.
TIM COOK Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them.
Le...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE If you're afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart: Nobody's perfect. Besides, your ...
JULIE MORGENSTERN Breath deeply, this breath is your life.
Enjoy the moment, this moment is your life.
Love ...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Write down your goals and let it be your guidepost.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go.
My heart... not so much.
SIMONE ELKELES Let the night come. We are not afraid.
POPPY Z. BRITE Let sincere faith be your bowing in prayer, and let the conquest of your mind be your objective in l...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Let not one bottle be thrown. Let not one brick be thrown.
NAJEE ALI Never be afraid to be in love. It is the place where your heart and your soul will find solace.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Cautionary Moral: Don't let your heart overrule your head.
KRIS WALDHERR Remember to let her into your heart.
JOHN LENNON Let the pain to expend your heart.
SUNALLURE Let your wishes be your prayers.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Let your conscience be your guide.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Fear can be good, Laia. It can keep you alive. But don't let it control you. Don't let it sow doubts...
SABAA TAHIR Don't chew your worries, your suffering, or your projects. That's not good for your health. Just che...
THICH NHAT HANH Let your intention be freedom from useless suffering. Then, let go.
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THOMAS HARDY you dear, sweet, tantalizing phantom--hardly flesh at all; so that when I put my arms round you I al...
THOMAS HARDY Had other aims than my delight.
THOMAS HARDY Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
THOMAS HARDY Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line -- less dir...
THOMAS HARDY Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements...
THOMAS HARDY On a Fine Morning”
in Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)
WHENCE comes Solac...
THOMAS HARDY The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of...
THOMAS HARDY Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or ...
THOMAS HARDY She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the...
THOMAS HARDY The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to thi...
THOMAS HARDY My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
THOMAS HARDY He had just reached the time of life at which 'young' is ceasing to be the prefix of 'man' in speaki...
THOMAS HARDY But no one came. Because no one ever does.
THOMAS HARDY My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
THOMAS HARDY The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the cou...
THOMAS HARDY And yet to every bad there is a worse.
THOMAS HARDY That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
THOMAS HARDY Love, though added emotion, is substracted capacity
THOMAS HARDY Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-relia...
THOMAS HARDY The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle ...
THOMAS HARDY