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What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?


Thomas Carlyle

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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 Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.
WILLIAM COWPER "What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my he...
JOHN NEWTON Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful - Get your facts first, and - then ...
MARK TWAIN If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
ALEISTER CROWLEY Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
ALEISTER CROWLEY "Do what thou wilt" shall be the whole of the law.
ALEISTER CROWLEY Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I know the ways of women; they won't come when thou wilt, and when thou won't they are passionately ...
TERENCE Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pai...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
BIBLE Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO What are the facts? Again and again and again - what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore di...
, FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then th...
BIBLE Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is form...
PHILIP ROTH Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is for...
PHILIP ROTH Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous in...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Stoop where thou wilt, thy careless hand Some random bud will meet; Thou canst not tread, but ...
THOMAS HOOD Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
BIBLE Love as thou wilt
JACQUELINE CAREY Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou ...
BIBLE Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold th...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Dionysus. Wilt thou be led By me, and try the venture?
EURIPIDES Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of morta...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?
THOMAS À KEMPIS Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? / Wilt thou break a leaf driven to a...
BIBLE Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actua...
SHANNON L. ALDER And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: neverthele...
BIBLE And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift ...
BIBLE Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but ...
MARK TWAIN If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
EPICURUS TITANIA Out of this wood do not desire to go; Thou shalt remain here whether thou wilt or no.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him...
BIBLE How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep,...
BIBLE Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou a...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps tho...
CONFUCIUS Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
BIBLE Wilt thou compel men to become believers? No soul can believe but by the leave of God
QURAN Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his natur...
MOHAMMED Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which prod...
JULES VERNE And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
MARCUS AURELIUS I'm not a fan of facts. You see, facts can change, but my opinion will never change, no matter what ...
STEPHEN COLBERT What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury? [Lat., Quid facies tibi, Injuri...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) Sometimes thou shalt be forsaken of God, sometimes thou shalt be troubled by thy neighbors; and what...
F. W. ROBERTSON Does the Eagle know what is in the pit / Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? / Can Wisdom be put in a silv...
WILLIAM BLAKE Direct not him whose way himself will choose: 'Tis breath thou lackest and that; breath wilt thou lo...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who k...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL 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 What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE And wilt thou still be hammering treachery To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
FRANCIS QUARLES Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finis...
MARCUS AURELIUS Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
AUSONIUS We know what we have to do, and we're capable of stringing together wins.
JOE CAPPELLI Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even...
BIBLE To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
JOHN BURROUGHS Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protectio...
GEORGE WASHINGTON And he said, O my LORD, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
BIBLE If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
BIBLE What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with...
JACK KINGSTON Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
MARCUS AURELIUS Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
ARISTOTLE Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examinati...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou...
BIBLE To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.
JOHN BURROUGHS For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
BIBLE Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night W...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
WILL CUPPY Records set now have to have some sort of a cloud and might be tainted by what [the players] have be...
FAY VINCENT Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? / Can...
BIBLE Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've alread...
AUGUSTO ROA BASTOS Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've alread...
AUGUSTO BASTOS Tho' lost to sight, to mem'ry dear/ Thou ever wilt remain.
GEORGE LINLEY “Truth is not determined by what others think about you; it's about what you believe in yourself. ...
DR. MATHIVANAN VELUMANI You're entitled to your own opinions. Your are not entitled to your own facts.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Thou wilt never be spiritually minded and godly unless thou art silent concerning other men's matter...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that h...
BIBLE And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare? / And he said unto them, Behold, when ye ar...
BIBLE …a man should say to his soul every morning, "God has given thee twenty-four treasures; take heed ...
أبو حامد محمد الغزالي I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, Where? What? and tur...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and ...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and ...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say...
BIBLE That which God writes on thy forehead, thou wilt come to it
QURAN And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee...
BIBLE [I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily a...
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THOMAS CARLYLE The heart always sees before than the head can see.
THOMAS CARLYLE Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage ...
THOMAS CARLYLE A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLE History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
THOMAS CARLYLE If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare ...
THOMAS CARLYLE No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of littl...
THOMAS CARLYLE Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
THOMAS CARLYLE Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony ...
THOMAS CARLYLE For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
THOMAS CARLYLE The Mystic Bond of Brotherhood makes all men one.
THOMAS CARLYLE No violent extreme endures.
THOMAS CARLYLE I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a gr...
THOMAS CARLYLE Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and kno...
THOMAS CARLYLE Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
THOMAS CARLYLE No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in...
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