Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government
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Related Following his brief inaugural address to the Congress, President George Washington and his party wal... GEORGE WASHINGTON That which God writes on thy forehead, thou wilt come to it QURAN 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 I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in h... GEORGE WASHINGTON Stoop where thou wilt, thy careless hand
Some random bud will meet;
Thou canst not tread, but ... THOMAS HOOD Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say... BIBLE Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for ... JOHN OWEN How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out
of thy sleep?
Yet a little sleep,... BIBLE Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? / Wilt thou break a leaf driven to a... BIBLE Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother. FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, / How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long sh... BIBLE And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. MARCUS AURELIUS "What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my he... JOHN NEWTON And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift ... BIBLE Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield. BIBLE The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne,
Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge. GEOFFREY CHAUCER The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity; and in that maturity ... DAVID THOMAS As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that
tomorrow's sunlight will be the last t... AUSONE DE CHANCEL And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did w... BIBLE Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou ... BIBLE [I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily a... RICHARD BAXTER 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 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 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then th... BIBLE Do not swear at all;
Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,
Which is the god of my idola... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE England! awake! awake! awake! / Jerusalem thy sister calls! / Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death... WILLIAM BLAKE If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ? THOMAS À KEMPIS If thy mind is altogether free, thou wilt not again enter into birth and decay. FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife. THOMAS FULLER Wilt thou compel men to become believers? No soul can believe but by the leave of God QURAN Thy letter sent to prove me,
Inflicts no sense of wrong;
No longer wilt thou love me,--
... HEINRICH HEINE And wilt thou still be hammering treachery
To tumble down thy husband and thyself
From top of ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love as thou wilt JACQUELINE CAREY 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 Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of lig... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill. RALPH WALDO EMERSON And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is i... 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 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 Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou ... SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never ... CHARLES SPURGEON Direct not him whose way himself will choose: 'Tis breath thou lackest and that; breath wilt thou lo... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the ... JOHN STUART BLACKIE Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. BIBLE I know the ways of women; they won't come when thou wilt, and when thou won't they are passionately ... TERENCE Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even... BIBLE Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? / Can... BIBLE That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according ... BIBLE Dionysus. Wilt thou be led By me, and try the venture? EURIPIDES For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house
appointed for all living. BIBLE TITANIA Out of this wood do not desire to go; Thou shalt remain here whether thou wilt or no. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor;
And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away. WILLIAM COWPER That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not... ANNE BRONTë Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold th... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the... BIBLE If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Tho' lost to sight, to mem'ry dear/ Thou ever wilt remain. GEORGE LINLEY Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 Matthew xi. 27. JESUS, th... CHARLES WESLEY Love as thou wilt. They are fools, who reckon Elua a soft god, fit only for the worship of starry-ey... JACQUELINE CAREY Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 I know Thee, Saviour, Who T... CHARLES WESLEY …a man should say to his soul every morning, "God has given thee twenty-four treasures; take heed ... أبو حامد محمد الغزالي O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou ... 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 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any like... BIBLE Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures? JOSEPH ADDISON Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the fi... BIBLE Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou... BIBLE Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night;
For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
W... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Christmas Eve A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Tho... GEORGE MACDONALD Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy s... BIBLE If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. BIBLE And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee... BIBLE Rocking on a lazy billow
With roaming eyes,
Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,
Thou art now w... JOHN STUART BLACKIE Thou wilt never be spiritually minded and godly unless thou art silent concerning other men's matter... THOMAS À KEMPIS Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, ... CHRISTOPHER LOVE What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-toge... THOMAS CARLYLE Father! no prophet's laws I seek,--
Thy laws in Nature's works appear;--
I own myself corrupt... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropis... CHARLES WESLEY If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. EPICURUS Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts, ... BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps tho... CONFUCIUS Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, / If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieve... BIBLE Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his natur... MOHAMMED Work and thou wilt bless the dayEre the toil be done;They that work not cannot pray,Cannot feel the ... JOHN SULLIVAN DWIGHT If thou wilt ease thine heart / Of love and all its smart, / Then sleep, dear, sleep. THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. MARCUS AURELIUS And he said, O my LORD, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send. BIBLE Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearm... ISAAC WATTS Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver. BIBLE And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? / And he cried unto the LORD; an... BIBLE
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