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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.


Marcus Aurelius

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
ARISTOTLE And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
MARCUS AURELIUS You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS Stoop where thou wilt, thy careless hand Some random bud will meet; Thou canst not tread, but ...
THOMAS HOOD Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
MARCUS AURELIUS And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift ...
BIBLE As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last t...
AUSONE DE CHANCEL And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then th...
BIBLE When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
BIBLE, MATTHEW 6:3 Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee
Save Me, save only Me?
All which I took from the...
FRANCIS G. THOMPSON But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
BIBLE Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Thy letter sent to prove me, Inflicts no sense of wrong; No longer wilt thou love me,-- ...
HEINRICH HEINE The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity; and in that maturity ...
DAVID THOMAS That which God writes on thy forehead, thou wilt come to it
QURAN If thy mind is altogether free, thou wilt not again enter into birth and decay.
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did w...
BIBLE How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep,...
BIBLE The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER "What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my he...
JOHN NEWTON Love as thou wilt
JACQUELINE CAREY For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
BIBLE Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefo...
OMAR KHAYYAM England! awake! awake! awake! / Jerusalem thy sister calls! / Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death...
WILLIAM BLAKE Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of lig...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY [I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily a...
RICHARD BAXTER Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? / Wilt thou break a leaf driven to a...
BIBLE Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in th...
BIBLE Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou...
BIBLE Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou ...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou ...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
MARCUS AURELIUS Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, the...
OMAR KHAYYAM Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
THOMAS FULLER Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Do not thou hasten above the most Highest: for thy haste is in vain to be above him, for thou hast m...
COMPTON GAGE Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO 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.
WILLIAM PENN And wilt thou still be hammering treachery To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All is not Gospel that thou doest speak
PROVERB Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for ...
JOHN OWEN Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protectio...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say...
BIBLE But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms m...
BIBLE O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?
THOMAS À KEMPIS If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the s...
BIBLE Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, ...
CHRISTOPHER LOVE In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not ...
BIBLE Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
ST. AUGUSTINE If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. -Twelfth Night....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Drink to me with thine eyes alone; or if thou wilt, having put it to thy lips, fill the cup with ki...
PHILOSTRATUS Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 Matthew xi. 27. JESUS, th...
CHARLES WESLEY Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold th...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy s...
BIBLE In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors; if thou despairest of suc...
AKHENATON In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. F...
JOHN WESLEY He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou ...
BIBLE For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not ...
BIBLE Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
BIBLE Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the f...
BIBLE Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till...
AUSTIN DOBSON Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till...
HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Do not swear at all; Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idola...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And tho...
KHALED HOSSEINI Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe Where every book is thy epitaph.
HENRY VAUGHAN ("THE SILURIST") Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy ha...
BIBLE Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
MARCUS AURELIUS Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
BIBLE If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art...
ANSARI Come, Caesar, even by night - let stars delay; If thou but come, thy folk will find it day
MARCUS AURELIUS Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land, Wherein thou liest in reputation sick; And thou, too ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a...
BIBLE Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will n...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will n...
EMILY DICKINSON O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He that is thy friend indeed,He will help thee in thy need:If thou sorrow, he will weep;If thou wake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art ra...
JUNIUS Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art ra...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not ...
BIBLE If thou desirest to be safe, turn at once in thy emptiness to God. If thou hast been inconsistent, h...
JOHANNES TAULER Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even...
BIBLE If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
EPICURUS Rome, Rome, thou art no more As thou hast been! On thy seven hills of yore Thou sat'st a...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, / If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieve...
BIBLE Thou hast fair forms that move With queenly tread; Thou hast proud fanes above Thy might...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according ...
BIBLE And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is i...
BIBLE But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Fa...
BIBLE Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude: Thy tooth is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Blow, blow thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude; Thy tooth is not so keen, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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MARCUS AURELIUS It is a mistake to think that Acerra reeks of yesterday's liquor: Acerra always drinks till next mor...
MARCUS AURELIUS Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, t...
MARCUS AURELIUS Rest lightly on her earth, for she trod never heavily on thee
MARCUS AURELIUS Do you make a grievance of weighing so many pounds only instead of three hundred? Then why fret abou...
MARCUS AURELIUS You say, Senca, that you were violated by robbers, but the robbers deny it
MARCUS AURELIUS Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily
MARCUS AURELIUS How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with th...
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 ...
MARCUS AURELIUS I could do without your face, Chloe, and without your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and to s...
MARCUS AURELIUS