Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect.
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MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. Never esteem anything as of advanta...
MARCUS AURELIUS Trust thy self, and another shall not betray thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Thy father's merit sets thee up to view,
And shows thee in the fairest point of light,
To make...
JOSEPH ADDISON And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou ...
BIBLE Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him ...
BIBLE And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take aw...
BIBLE The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine...
BIBLE Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall...
PSALM 91:9-11 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusal...
BIBLE Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occup...
BIBLE Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, / How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee? / Wider...
ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I...
BIBLE And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be estab...
BIBLE Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.
BIBLE May it preserve thee from sorcery, from thy equals and thy kin! Undying be, immortal, exceedingly vi...
ATHARVA VEDA When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Discretion shall pre...
THE BIBLE Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.
BIBLE Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of
thee, and so hate thee.
BIBLE And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, whi...
BIBLE And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all th...
BIBLE And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days: ...
BIBLE Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many...
BIBLE Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt ...
BIBLE Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf
INDIAN PROVERB And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fie...
BIBLE He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the flo...
BIBLE That I may apprehend thee as light lightening every creature and everything, every moment; that I ma...
ERIC MILNER-WHITE How shall I speak thee, or thy power address
Thou God of our idolatry, the Press.
. . . .
...
WILLIAM COWPER But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy
daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or th...
BIBLE Be upright in thy whole life; be content in all its changes;so shalt thou make thy profit out of all...
AKHENATON Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, nei...
BIBLE In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I wil...
BIBLE In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I wil...
BIBLE Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall...
BIBLE And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break ...
BIBLE Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. -Native American.
NATIVE AMERICAN The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither ...
BIBLE Since word is thrall, and thought is free,
Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.
JAMES I OF SCOTLAND Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment;
JOSEPH SMITH JR. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Fa...
BIBLE Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Accept these grateful tears! for thee thy flow,
For thee, that ever felt another's woe!
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do th...
JOHANN VON GOETHE How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do th...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Remember thee! remember thee!
Till Lethe quench life's burning stream
Remorse and sham...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
BIBLE Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make
heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry ...
GEORGE CHAPMAN Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against th...
BIBLE And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast...
BIBLE White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest
So wonderfully built among the reeds
Of the lagoo...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW With Thee, 'tis one to behold and to pity. Accordingly, Thy mercy followeth every man so long as he ...
NICOLAS OF CUSA But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy
right hand doeth:
That thine alms m...
BIBLE By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessin...
JOHN PEARSON Never propose to thy self such a God, as thou wert not bound to imitate: Thou mistakest God, if thou...
JOHN DONNE How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Thy Word. Thy Word I have treasure...
BIBLE Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the myste...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upo...
BIBLE Grace thou thy House, and let not that grace thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In life's small things be resolute and great
To keep thy muscle trained: knowst thou when Fate
...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
GEORGE HERBERT And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at al...
BIBLE I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.
BIBLE Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
BIBLE Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant...
BIBLE Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
BIBLE Hail to thee blithe Spirit!
Bird thou never wert,
That from Heaven, or near it,
Pourest ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Ah! were I sever'd from thy side,
Where were thy friend and who my guide?
Years have not seen...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have reme...
BIBLE Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not...
BIBLE Do not swear at all;
Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,
Which is the god of my idola...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Concluding a short series on authenticity: Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: W...
JOHN DONNE And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs: / And the river ...
BIBLE I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy
eyes—and moreover, I will go w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
ELIZABETH I Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee.
EPICTETUS Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
EPICTETUS Have thy tools ready, God will find thee work
CHARLES KINGSLEY Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
CHARLES KINGSLEY Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten ima...
BIBLE Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first...
MARGARET COURTNEY Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me;...
BIBLE And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy c...
BIBLE Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee - for whither thou goest, I wil...
CASSANDRA CLARE Although life is hard in pace
Lose not thy calm and grace.
If thee are not tender
...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Vainly the fowler's eye
Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong,
As, darkly painted on ...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not ...
BIBLE (Cloten:) Thou villain base,
Know'st me not by my clothes?
(Guiderius:) No, nor thy tailor, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN England with all thy faults, I love thee still--
My country! and, while yet a nook is left
Wh...
WILLIAM COWPER Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land,
Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;
And thou, too ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But zeal moved thee;
To please thy gods thou didst it!
JOHN MILTON The caterpillar on the leaf / Repeats to thee thy mother's grief.
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MARCUS AURELIUS No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams
MARCUS AURELIUS Nothing in nature is evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS It certainly is uncomfortable for everybody. It's somewhat of an anomaly. We're still in August but ...
MARCUS AURELIUS I think if we had the same magnitude of devastation that they had, we would be very much challenged ...
MARCUS AURELIUS If it does not fit leave it, if it is not true do not say it.
MARCUS AURELIUS To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice
MARCUS AURELIUS Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee
MARCUS AURELIUS The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere
MARCUS AURELIUS Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear
MARCUS AURELIUS If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Your face is black, your hair like flame, And one eye's damaged, one foot lame: If, still, you're qu...
MARCUS AURELIUS You ask me, Linus what my field out at Nomentum is to yield? Well this it yields to me: the view, my...
MARCUS AURELIUS To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize
MARCUS AURELIUS The height of farce it is, I ween, To be so perfumed and anointed, And when one's appetite's most ke...
MARCUS AURELIUS Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking
MARCUS AURELIUS Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
MARCUS AURELIUS There is no glory in outstripping donkeys
MARCUS AURELIUS Why do you wrap up your neck in a woolen muffler when you are going to recite? The muffler would be ...
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