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Let nothing disturb thee, nothing affright thee; all things are passing; God never changeth.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Robert Frost

I am not bound to please thee with my answers.

William Shakespeare

I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.

William Shakespeare

Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

William Shakespeare

God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

William Shakespeare

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

William Shakespeare

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

William Shakespeare

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

William Shakespeare

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.

William Shakespeare

Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee.

Epictetus

But did thee feel the earth move?

Ernest Hemingway

When the winds blow and the rains fall and the sun shines through the clouds he still resolves as he did then, that nothing so fine ever happened to him or anyone else as falling in love with Thee-my dearest heart.

Richard M. Nixon

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need,by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,tears,of all my life.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

So, fall asleep love, loved by me...for I know love, I am loved by thee.

Robert Browning

Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.

St. John Of The Cross

Stay for me there; I will not fail / To meet thee in that hollow vale. / And think not much of my delay; / I am already on the way.

Henry King

If I speak to thee in friendship's name, thou think'st I speak too coldly, if I mention love's devoted flame, thou say'st I speak too boldly.

Sir Thomas More

Outside the kingdom of the Lord thee is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

Haile Selassie

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

Akhenaton

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

George Moore

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.

Jean Paul Richter

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

Akhenaton

Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again.

Sir Thomas More

I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.

James Boswell

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.

Margaret Courtney

O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.

William Cowper

Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.

Mary Webb

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.

Sir Thomas Browne

From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.

Bayard Taylor

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

Bible

With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.

Book of Common Prayer

Abide with me from morn to eve, / For without Thee I cannot live: / Abide with me when night is nigh. / For without Thee I dare not die.

John Keble

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

William Penn

The Philistines be upon thee, Samson.

Bible

I pray thee leave, love me no more, / Call home the heart you gave me, / I but in vain the saint adore, / That can, but will not, save me.

Michael Drayton

I've been in rehab before and nothing worked. Nothing until I came to the church and prayed, and they prayed with me. I have been clean for five months now. When I get the urge, I just pray, 'get thee behind me Satan, by the blood of Jesus.' It gives me strength.

Sam Kern

It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

Bible

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.

Muhammad Iqbal

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

Barry Cornwall

It was the Rainbow gave thee birth, / And left thee all her lovely hues.

William Henry Davies

Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend / With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. / Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must / Disappointment all I endeavour end?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, / The shooting-stars attend thee; / And the elves also,/ Whose little eyes glow, / Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.

Robert Herrick

Don't tax me; don't tax thee; tax that fellow behind the tree.

Russell B. Long

Nature: I give to thee for thy defence Thy formidable innocence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Plato

If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

Francis Quarles

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Let them bestow on every airth a limb; Then open all my veins, that I may swim To thee, my Maker! in that crimson lake; Then place my parboiled head upon a stake - Scatter my ashes - strew them in the air; - Lord! since thou know'st where all these.

James Graham

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, / Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well!

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and to-morrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.

Charles Wolfe

A chieftain to the Highlands bound / Cries, `Boatman, do not tarry! / And I'll give thee a silver pound / To row us o'er the ferry.'

Thomas Campbell

Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;/ When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. / Mother's wag, pretty boy, / Father's sorrow, father's joy.

Dr. Robert Greene

They call thee rich; I deem thee poor; since, if thou darest not use thy store, but savest only for thine heirs, the treasure is not thine, but theirs.

Lucillius

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

We only part to meet again. / Change, as ye list, ye winds; my heart shall be / The faithful compass that still points to thee.

John Gay

I will not let thee go. / Had not the great sun seen, I might; / Or were he reckoned slow / To bring the false to light, / Then might I let thee go.

Robert Bridges

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.

Jean de La Fontaine

Fare thee well, fare thee well / I am leaving, yes I'll leave it all to you.

Alex Kapranos

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid...for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Bible

Lord, it belongs not to my care, Whether I die or live; To love and serve Thee is my share, And this Thy grace must give.

Richard Baxter

He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need: if thou sorrow, he will weep; if you wake, he cannot sleep; thus of every grief in heart he with thee doth bear a part.

Richard Barnfield

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.

Matthew Henry

Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.

William Congreve

Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, / How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee? / Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set; / God who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.

Arthur Christopher Benson

I must not think of thee; and, tired yet strong, / I shun the thought that lurks in all delight - / The thought of thee - and in the blue heaven's height, / And in the sweetest passage of a song.

Alice Meynell

O Bruscus, cease our aching ears to vex - with thy loud railing, at the softer sex; No accusation worse than this could be - That once a woman did give birth to thee.

Acilius

Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Thomas Carlyle

Lord, I am coming as fast as I can: I know I must pass through the shadow of death before I can come to Thee; but it is but umbra mortis, a mere shadow of death... Thou, by thy merits and passion, hath broken through the jaws of death.

William Laud

For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.

Sir Thomas Malory

I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble.

Mennonite Proverb

Get thee behind me, Satan.

Bible

EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the law of moderation. Hail, high Excess -- especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me -- My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine. Precept on precept, aye, and line on line, Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree With reason .

Ambrose Bierce

...Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.

Saint Augustine

If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears.

Lord Byron

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

David Mallet

To the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.

Herman Melville

Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.

Ben Jonson

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

George William Russell

Under this stone, reader, survey / Dead Sir John Vanbrugh's house of clay. / Lie heavy on him, Earth! For he / Laid many heavy loads on thee!

Abel Evans

Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.

Hannah Whitall Smith

America! America! God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!

Katharine Lee Bates

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

Now cracks a noble heart. Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

Wellington Mara

How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.

Lord Byron

And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.

John Clare

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

Anne Bradstreet

I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honor more.

Richard Lovelace

Luan is a good fighter who landed many good shots against me. I want to be thee world champion, not just a United States champion and I proved it tonight by coming to Germany and defeating a game challenger. I always fight from will, not always from skill.

Lamon Brewster

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! / Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.

Bishop Heber

When thou must home to shades of underground, / And there arrived, a new admirèd guest, / The beauteous spirits do engirt thee round, / White Iope, blithe Helen, and the rest.

Thomas Campion

I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first - / Wretch! whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to vengeance; / Sordid, unfeeling, reprobate, degraded, / Spiritless outcast!

George Canning

If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it.

Ezra Bowen

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.

William Pennington

I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties. I'm a promoter of America. I'm American people. You know what I mean? So therefore, uh, do not send for who the bell tolls 'cause the bell tolls for thee.

Brandon King

Flooding will develop rather quickly in areas that have seen the heavy rains over the last thee weeks. It won't take much to push those areas back into a dangerous situation. So we all need to be aware of what's happening around us, especially this afternoon and tomorrow.

Nezette Rydell

Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctor's spite; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel, And lap me in delight.

Charles Sprague

Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self-made sepulcher of a living man.

Francis Quarles

Peace to thee, my spiritual brother!

Saint Stephen

FOLLY, n. That 'gift and faculty divine' whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life. Folly! although Erasmus praised thee once In a thick volume, and all authors known, If not thy glory yet thy power have shown, Deign to take homage from thy son who hunts Through all thy maze his brothers, fool and dunce, .

Ambrose Bierce

He will laugh thee to scorn.

Bible

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

Sir William Drummond

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

Robert Owen

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.

John Donne

Be upright in thy whole life; be content in all its changes;so shalt thou make thy profit out of all occurrences; so shall everything that happeneth unto thee be the source of praise.

Akhenaton

In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee.

Lord Byron

I love thee for a heart that's kind --not for the knowledge in thy mind.

William Henry Davies

Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee.

Bible

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

Cotton Mather

I'll make thee glorious by my pen, And famous by my sword.

James Graham

If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

Ernest Dowson

Wait for me by moonlight, watch for me by moonlight,I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.

Alfred Noyes

That I may apprehend thee as light lightening every creature and everything, every moment; that I may know thee as truth, hearing thy voice; that I may serve thee as love, loving thy people, asking for no reward, no place, but one only and for one instant-to lean on thy bosom.

Eric Milner white

Gracious Bacchus! Accept this empty jar! You will know best, what in pious worship of thee became of all the first.

Eratosthenes

I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me - Gamester.

Edward Moore

'For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.

E. Y. Harburg

Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.

Zoroaster