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Direct not him whose way himself will choose: 'Tis breath thou lackest and that; breath wilt thou lose


William Shakespeare

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How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath
To say to me that thou art out of breath?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Stoop where thou wilt, thy careless hand Some random bud will meet; Thou canst not tread, but ...
THOMAS HOOD Weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
BIBLE There is not room for Death, / Nor atom that his might could render void: / Thou - Thou art Being an...
EMILY BRONTE Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou ...
BIBLE Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude: Thy tooth is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Blow, blow thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude; Thy tooth is not so keen, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to thei...
BIBLE 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 Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou ...
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 Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE …a man should say to his soul every morning, "God has given thee twenty-four treasures; take heed ...
أبو حامد محمد الغزالي 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 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? / Can...
BIBLE "What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my he...
JOHN NEWTON Love as thou wilt
JACQUELINE CAREY 'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; a...
LAURENCE STERNE [I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily a...
RICHARD BAXTER And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift ...
BIBLE Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, / If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieve...
BIBLE For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TITANIA Out of this wood do not desire to go; Thou shalt remain here whether thou wilt or no.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? / Wilt thou break a leaf driven to a...
BIBLE And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then th...
BIBLE 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 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 Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.
WILLIAM COWPER If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?
THOMAS À KEMPIS If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
BIBLE If thy mind is altogether free, thou wilt not again enter into birth and decay.
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
MARCUS AURELIUS I know the ways of women; they won't come when thou wilt, and when thou won't they are passionately ...
TERENCE Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his natur...
MOHAMMED Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again...
BIBLE As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last t...
AUSONE DE CHANCEL And he said, O my LORD, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
BIBLE Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER That which God writes on thy forehead, thou wilt come to it
QURAN Dionysus. Wilt thou be led By me, and try the venture?
EURIPIDES Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protectio...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Thou wilt never be spiritually minded and godly unless thou art silent concerning other men's matter...
THOMAS À KEMPIS O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps tho...
CONFUCIUS Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of lig...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
BIBLE 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 Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
MARCUS AURELIUS And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him...
BIBLE 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 Tho' lost to sight, to mem'ry dear/ Thou ever wilt remain.
GEORGE LINLEY Work and thou wilt bless the dayEre the toil be done;They that work not cannot pray,Cannot feel the ...
JOHN SULLIVAN DWIGHT And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare? / And he said unto them, Behold, when ye ar...
BIBLE And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee...
BIBLE What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-toge...
THOMAS CARLYLE Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: neverthele...
BIBLE He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou ...
BIBLE For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
BIBLE Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
JOSEPH ADDISON First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
THOMAS FULLER Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
EPICURUS Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou...
BIBLE Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt alway...
MARCUS AURELIUS The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity; and in that maturity ...
DAVID THOMAS No, 'tis slander,
Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER If thou wilt ease thine heart / Of love and all its smart, / Then sleep, dear, sleep.
THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
BIBLE Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night W...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt alway...
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not...
ANNE BRONTë Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; The world has grown gray from thy breath; We have drunke...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of ...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep,...
BIBLE Never propose to thy self such a God, as thou wert not bound to imitate: Thou mistakest God, if thou...
JOHN DONNE Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: / He ...
BIBLE Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst no...
BIBLE Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear,
Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If thou believest that Christ was crucified for the sins of the world, thou must with Him be crucifi...
JOHN ARNDT Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold th...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO "Stop thief," Dame Nature cried to Death As Willy drew his latest breath, "How shall I make a fool a...
ROBERT BURNS Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they ...
BIBLE Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say...
BIBLE And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him: and when he was come near, he asked him, ...
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Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite ...
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Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest wa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows-- The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
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