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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.


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SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n
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AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Fa...
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BIBLE That thou mayest win to the sweetness of God's love, I set here three degrees of love, in the which ...
RICHARD ROLLE Wit thou well that I will notlive long after thy days.
SIR THOMAS MALORY Annunciation

Salvation to all that will is nigh;
That All, which always is all every...
JOHN DONNE That which God writes on thy forehead, thou wilt come to it
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HEINRICH HEINE The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither ...
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GEORGE MACDONALD Mark it, nuncle.
Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less...
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BIBLE If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
WILLIAM PENN If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.
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BIBLE Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy ha...
BIBLE Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the...
BIBLE Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, ...
BIBLE LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was ...
BIBLE And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in...
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ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done?
Aaron: That which thou canst not undo.
Chiron: Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
BIBLE Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without governmen...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
BIBLE If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or th...
BIBLE Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
BIBLE Concluding a short series on authenticity: Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: W...
JOHN DONNE Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349 It behoves thee to love G...
RICHARD ROLLE Thou hast fair forms that move With queenly tread; Thou hast proud fanes above Thy might...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee
Save Me, save only Me?
All which I took from the...
FRANCIS G. THOMPSON And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of morta...
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BIBLE Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and...
THOMAS A KEMPIS Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, w...
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CHRISTINA ENGELA Slavery of the heart, oh Love - a prisoner of will thou art - proof that love, while blissful, can o...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Rome, Rome, thou art no more As thou hast been! On thy seven hills of yore Thou sat'st a...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS To whom thy secret thou dost tell, To him thy freedom thou dost sell
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thys...
AKHENATON AKHENATON Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thys...
AKHENATON Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thys...
AKHENATON Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 I know Thee, Saviour, Who T...
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FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY [I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily a...
RICHARD BAXTER As thou hast said unto thy servant, that thou, which gives life to all, hast given life at once to t...
COMPTON GAGE Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy bl...
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GEORGE HERBERT If thou desirest to be safe, turn at once in thy emptiness to God. If thou hast been inconsistent, h...
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BIBLE Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me. Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am To dre...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 Thou knowest well how to excuse and col...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land, Wherein thou liest in reputation sick; And thou, too ...
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JOHN DONNE Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest
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BIBLE “Poor deer,” quoth he, “thou makest a testament As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more To th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love, well thou know'st no partnership allows, Cupid averse rejects divided vows.
ALEXANDER POPE But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my na...
BIBLE Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 Incarnate Word! Thou Word of God alone! ...
THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine, and be not diffident
Of wisdom, ...
JOHN MILTON Stoop where thou wilt, thy careless hand Some random bud will meet; Thou canst not tread, but ...
THOMAS HOOD Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round a...
BIBLE But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom th...
BIBLE Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!
ROBERT BURNS Love as thou wilt
JACQUELINE CAREY When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
BIBLE Send me nor this, nor that, to increase my store,
But swear thou think'st I love thee, and no m...
JOHN DONNE Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she dese...
JOHN MILTON Confront Thy Fear Once, And Thou Shalt Be Afraid No More.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest wa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows-- The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
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