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Friend of all climes, and pride of every age! JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukemia. JOSE CARRERAS BEL-IMPERIA: Oh let me go; for in my troubled eyes Now may'st thou read that life in passion di... THOMAS KYD My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the
Escuriall. GEORGE HERBERT Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me. BIBLE Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress. MAIMONIDES Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress. MAIMONIDES Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? / Wilt thou break a leaf driven to a... BIBLE So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, / Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away,/ Turn th... JOHN DONNE Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be;Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to... ROBERT HERRICK Strength of my heart, I need not fail, Not mind to fear but to obey, With such a Leader, w... AMY CARMICHAEL Much converse do I find in thee,
Historian of my infancy!
Float near me; do not yet depart!
... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. BIBLE Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which prod... JULES VERNE I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as ... BIBLE Come, civil night, Thou sober-suited matron, all in black. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Most glorious night!
Thou wert not sent for slumber! LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my tr... BIBLE Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for th... BIBLE Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 Incarnate Word! Thou Word of God alone! ... THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress. MAIMONIDES Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression... BIBLE For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. BIBLE Direct not him whose way himself will choose: 'Tis breath thou lackest and that; breath wilt thou lo... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou hast prevariated with thy friend,
By underhand contrivances undone me:
And while my open ... NICHOLAS ROWE Where I am always thou art. Thy image lives within my heart. SHERRILYN KENYON Poems are soft kitten furs. smoothing out the rough edges of my world. SANOBER KHAN Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free,
First flower of the earth, and first gem... THOMAS MOORE Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while t... JOHN HOSKINS Thou call'st me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it. ORHAN PAMUK And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sigh... BIBLE Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous in... JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginnings of my
strength, the excellency of digni... BIBLE And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? /... BIBLE Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long. BIBLE And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is. BIBLE [I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily a... RICHARD BAXTER Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:
thou anointest my head with oil:... BIBLE Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. PUBLILIUS SYRUS Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. ANONYMOUS Thou art a female, Katydid!
I know it by the trill
That quivers through thy piercing notes
... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath? WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this. HOMER Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou ... BIBLE Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again... BIBLE O thou great, unknown Power! Thou Almighty God, who hast lighted up reason in my breast and blessed ... ROBERT BURNS Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, EMILY DICKINSON If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art... ANSARI Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I HERBERT TRENCH Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adult... MARQUIS DE SADE Thou hast but enraged, not insulted me, sir; but for that I ask thee not to beware of Starbuck; thou... HERMAN MELVILLE Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou ... SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so lo... WILLIAM WELLS BROWN Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to t... BIBLE The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born. DAVID DUCHOVNY Thou has heard the words of Christ. . . . Dost thou weep, when I have thee, Poor soul, what ai... RICHARD BAXTER Gentle Spring!--in sunshine clad,
Well dost thou thy power display!
For Winter maketh the ligh... CHARLES D'ORLEANS (COMTE D'ANGOULEME) Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my... FRANCIS OF ASSISI It fortifies my soul to know That though I perish, truth is so; That, wheresoe'er I stray and range... ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Thou lovest, without passion; art jealous, wit... ST. AUGUSTINE Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a
cord which thou lettest down?
C... BIBLE Thou art not dead! Thou art the whole
Of life that quickens in the sod. CHARLES HANSON TOWNE And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift ... BIBLE O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried... BIBLE Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee - for whither thou goest, I wil... CASSANDRA CLARE Here, thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,
Dost sometimes counsel take--and sometimes tea. ALEXANDER POPE Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smile... PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 Matthew xi. 27. JESUS, th... CHARLES WESLEY Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my ... ALEXANDRE DUMAS When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee sh... BIBLE Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss
Of Paradise that hast survived the Fall! WILLIAM COWPER Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that ... BIBLE If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine,
Thou robb'st me of a moiety. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Burly, dozing humblebee,
Where thou art is clime for me.
Let them sail for Porto Rique,
... RALPH WALDO EMERSON If thou dost continually draw thine impulse, thy life, the whole of thy being from the Holy Spirit, ... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unt... BIBLE Belatedly I loved thee, O Beauty so ancient and so new, belatedly I loved thee. For see, thou wast w... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Jesus! why dost Thou love me so? What hast Thou seen in me To make my happiness so great, So dear... FREDRICK WILLIAM FABER When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not ... BIBLE Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes
And interchanged love tokens with my child;
T... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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