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To thee, fair Freedom! I retireFrom flattery, cards, and dice, and din:Nor art thou found in mansions higherThan the low cot, or humble inn.


William Shenstone

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Myself have made thee so;
Yea, thou art fair indeed,
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LAMAN BLANCHARD Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
BIBLE Thou seest, thou wicked varlet, now, what’s come upon thee: thou art to continue, now, thou varlet...
LORNA SAGE 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...
AKHENATON I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.
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BIBLE Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that w...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fair quiet, have I found thee here / And innocence thy sister dear?
ANDREW MARVELL Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! ...
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BIBLE Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend
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WILLIAM DRUMMOND Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream
GEORGE LINLEY And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard ...
BIBLE For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Methink'st thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Is this a dagger which I see before me,
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JAKOB BOHME For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 "I have not sought Thee, I have not found Thee, I have no...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
ROBERT OWEN If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little
MARTIN FRAQUHAR TUPPER Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, ...
CHRISTOPHER LOVE If thou art called to pass through tribulations; if thou art in perils among false brethren; if thou...
JOSEPH SMITH If thou art called to pass through tribulation; if thou art in perils among false brethren; if thou ...
JOSEPH SMITH JR. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer
ROBERT OWEN All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
ROBERT OWEN Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while t...
JOHN HOSKINS Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy! Float near me; do not yet depart! ...
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BIBLE Thou art so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin.
EDWARD YOUNG Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
THOMAS HOOD And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast...
BIBLE Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and...
RICHARD BAXTER Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low, Lest I sho...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I'll give thee armor to keep off that word; Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, To comfort the...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear,
Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.
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KHALED HOSSEINI My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee; Betwixt the stirrop and the ground, ...
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"How do I break thee? Let me count the ways.
I break thee if thou a...
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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy ha...
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 Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land, Wherein thou liest in reputation sick; And thou, too ...
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WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN Be found of us whom Thou hast deigned to seek, / Be found that we the more may seek for Thee; / Lord...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy sui...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.
CHARLES SPURGEON When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
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AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Soul of the Age! / The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! / My Shakespeare, rise; I will no...
BEN JONSON 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 Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee - for whither thou goest, I wil...
CASSANDRA CLARE And you, enchantment, Worthy enough a herdsman--yea, him too, That makes himself, but for our ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright...
JOSEPH ADDISON Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. Acts 26:24
BIBLE O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
BARRY CORNWALL O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
BRYAN PROCTER But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it foll...
JOHANN ARNDT Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee And cherish'd thine image for years; Thou hast ta...
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JUNIUS Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art ra...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, thos...
JOHN DONNE Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those...
JOHN DONNE And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sigh...
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SMART GHOST If thou art rich, thou'rt poor, For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and wit...
BIBLE When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
MARCUS AURELIUS DESDEMONA: I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.
OTHELLO: Oh, ay, as summer flies are in the ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Freedom exists in altitudes of high and low, near, far and beyond, lost and found, lack and abundanc...
MAURICE SPEES Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not ...
BIBLE Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226 Be not afraid that t...
UGOLINO OF MONTEGIORGIO Am not IA fly like thee?Or art not thouA man like me?
WILLIAM BLAKE As if thou e'er wert angry But with thy tailor! and yet that poor shred Can bring more to the...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
WILLIAM PETTY Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.
WILLIAM SCRANTON The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you...
PRINCE WILLIAM What Bitcoin started is metamorphosing into something bigger: a 'crypto-tech'-driven economy...
WILLIAM MOUGAYAR Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, w...
WILLIAM GOLDING Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man...
WILLIAM GODWIN Meeting all walks of life, it broadened your horizons, let's say that.
WILLIAM O'NEILL President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave t...
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Whi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The trouble with Hollywood is that too many of the top people responsible for pictures are too comfo...
WILLIAM WYLER Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images t...
WILLIAM LAUD The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.
WILLIAM BLIGH I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we hap...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ... in an even wilder part of the river's jungle of cane and gum and pin oak, there is an Indian mou...
WILLIAM FAULKNER When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw...
WILLIAM FAULKNER India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand...
WILLIAM CAVENDISH Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for comp...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY