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Be mild, and cleave to gentle things,
thy glory and thy happiness be there.


William Wordsworth

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How shall polluted mortals dare
To sing Thy glory or Thy grace
Beneath Thy feet we lie ...
ISAAC WATTS All glory to Adonai!
Great is thy love.
Great is thy mercy.
Great is thy faithfulnes...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, T...
ABRAHAM COWLEY On action alone be thy interest,
Never on its fruits.
Let not the fruits of action be thy moti...
BHAGAVAD GITA Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end;
Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy
eyes—and moreover, I will go w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Who foremost now delight to cleave / With pliant arm thy glassy wave?
THOMAS GRAY Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought aga...
BIBLE Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Grant that I may radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace
to all t...
JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE Hast thou ice that thou shalt bind it
To thy breast, and make thee dead
To thy children, t...
EURIPIDES Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken...
BIBLE But first on earth as vampire sent
Thy corpse shall from its tomb be rent
Then gastly haun...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Thy shoes shall be of iron and brass: and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
BIBLE To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.
BILL VAUGHAN To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.
BILL VAUGHAN So far be distant; and good night, sweet friend.
Thy love ne’er alter till thy sweet life end...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
HIPPOCRATES Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
GEORGE HERBERT Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blak...
WILLIAM BLAKE Happy be Thy world
The world forgetting by the forgotten world;
The failed attempts to re...
RANJANI RAMACHANDRAN Such as thy words are, such will thine affections be esteemed; and such as thine affections, will be...
SOCRATES Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothi...
JAMES ALLEN For where thy treasure is, there also will thy heart be.
ANONYMOUS Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
BIBLE Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
BIBLE Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment;
JOSEPH SMITH JR. Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy...
BIBLE There be three gentle and goodlie things,
To be here,
To be together,
And to think w...
L.M. MONTGOMERY And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
BIBLE On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy naiad airs have ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts s...
EMMET FOX Grant unto us, Lord, that we may set our hope on Thy name…and open the eyes of our hearts, that we...
CLEMENT OF ROME Slogans are mere wordsuck...
GABRIEL THY Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use;...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And these few precepts in thy memory
Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never seek to tell thy love, / Love that never told can be; / For the gentle wind does move / Silent...
WILLIAM BLAKE The combat deepens. On, ye brave, / Who rush to glory, or the grave! / Wave, Munich! all thy banners...
THOMAS CAMPBELL May it preserve thee from sorcery, from thy equals and thy kin! Undying be, immortal, exceedingly vi...
ATHARVA VEDA Thy confidence, shall be thy courage.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Let thy discontents be thy secrets.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy...
JOHN DONNE Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy...
JOHN DONNE Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call,
for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.
JOHN DONNE Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the...
BIBLE Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.
GEORGE HERBERT Let thy body be thy holy temple.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Let thy life be thy gracious treasure.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Let thy pure act be thy prayer.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Let thy holy temple be thy body.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
BIBLE Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
ARAB PROVERB Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
BIBLE Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
BIBLE In Springtime, O Dionysos,
To thy holy temple come,
To Elis with thy Graces,
Rushing ...
PLUTARCH Not so on Man; him through their malice fall'n,
Father of Mercy and Grace, thou didst not doom<...
JOHN MILTON Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt ...
BIBLE Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen
Within thy airy shell
By slow Meander's marg...
JOHN MILTON Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.
THE TALMUD Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet
THE TALMUD And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be estab...
BIBLE To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance t...
WILLIAM DUNBAR Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established" (Psalms 16:3).
ANONYMOUS Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
BIBLE Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barr...
SAINT AMBROSE Speak to me as to thy thinkings,
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
The w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Mother, I bow to thee! Rich with thy hurrying streams, Bright with orchard gleams, Cool with thy win...
BANKIM CHANDRA CHATERJEE There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those t...
C. S. LEWIS Rich, only to be wretched, thy great fortunesAre made thy chief afflictions.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst ...
BIBLE Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and the child of the skies! Thy gen...
TIMOTHY DWIGHT Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
EPICTETUS If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: B...
WILLIAM COWPER And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take aw...
BIBLE Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry ...
GEORGE CHAPMAN Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!) Be humble and ...
MATTHEW PRIOR Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten...
FRANCIS QUARLES Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten...
FRANCIS QUARLES Thy treasures of gold
Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold;
Thy home may be lo...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.
BIBLE Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN God be thy comfort.
God loves you.
God will take care for you.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fie...
BIBLE Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is b...
BIBLE Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occup...
BIBLE Entreat me not to leave thee,

Or return from following after thee—

For whith...
CASSANDRA CLARE MARSYAS:
There are seven keys to the great gate,
Being eight in one and one in eigh...
ALEISTER CROWLEY But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
BIBLE Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms ...
JAMES HOGG ("THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD") If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if th...
FRANCIS QUARLES Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. <...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
HORACE He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass
HORACE Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, ...
BIBLE Go thy way, and tell my people, the people of thy Lord God what manner of things, and how great wond...
COMPTON GAGE Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
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Long after it was heard no more.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ...The happy Warrior... 'tis he whose law is reason; who depends upon that law as on the best of fri...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Tho...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of someth...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
S...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
T...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together . . . humble ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And now I see with eye sereneThe very pulse of the machine.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Beloved Vale, I said, When I shall con those many records of my childish years
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none;
Look up a second time, and, one by one,
...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The silence that is in the starry sky,
The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollect...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH We have within ourselves
Enough to fill the present day with joy,
And overspread the future ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;
And humble cares, and delicate fears;
A heart, the fount...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Sweet childish days, that were as long as twenty days are now
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And mighty poets in their misery dead.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH By our own spirits are we deified:We Poets in our youth begin in gladness;But thereof come in the en...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Fears and fancies thick upon me came.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH