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O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.


Jonathan Swift

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BIBLE 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 Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
KAREL CAPEK Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while t...
JOHN HOSKINS O God, if in the day of battle I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not...
BIBLE Lord, since Thou hast taken from me all that I had of Thee, yet of Thy grace leave me the gift which...
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BIBLE Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou sh...
BIBLE I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the very last mite.
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BIBLE Remember thee! remember thee!
Till Lethe quench life's burning stream
Remorse and sham...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON I sleep with thee, and wake with thee,
And yet thou are not there;
I fill my arms with tho...
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CHARLES SPURGEON Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts, ...
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To thy breast, and make thee dead
To thy children, t...
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EMILY DICKINSON Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
BIBLE He will laugh thee to scorn.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Be found of us whom Thou hast deigned to seek, / Be found that we the more may seek for Thee; / Lord...
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ANONYMOUS Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost fa...
BIBLE When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speakin...
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CHRISTINA ROSSETTI But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom th...
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VENERABLE BEDE Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Great art Thou, O Lord, and highly to be praise...
C. I. SCOFIELD Answerest thou nothing? Behold how many things they witness against thee.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, thou hast damnable iteration, and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much har...
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UGOLINO OF MONTEGIORGIO I send thee myrrh, not that thou mayest be by it perfumed, but it perfumed by thee
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BIBLE Seeing thou hast now given me the way, I will proceed to speak before thee: for our mother, of whom ...
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BIBLE To a Vase

"How do I break thee? Let me count the ways.
I break thee if thou a...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I take leave of Prome and her towering god, Shwa Lan-dau, at whose base I have been laboring with th...
ADONIRAM JUDSON When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when the...
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SENECA Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
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BIBLE Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with r...
AKHENATON AKHENATON Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with r...
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RICHARD BAXTER Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall...
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JONATHAN SWIFT The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been...
JONATHAN SWIFT A lie is an excuse guarded
JONATHAN SWIFT Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
JONATHAN SWIFT Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest
JONATHAN SWIFT What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly
JONATHAN SWIFT Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
JONATHAN SWIFT Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
JONATHAN SWIFT Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
JONATHAN SWIFT Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion
JONATHAN SWIFT Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titill...
JONATHAN SWIFT All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this ye...
JONATHAN SWIFT In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends
JONATHAN SWIFT It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
JONATHAN SWIFT Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us th...
JONATHAN SWIFT Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller...
JONATHAN SWIFT The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowde...
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