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Greece, sound thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, / But England's Milton equals both in fame.


William Cowper

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Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
WILLIAM COWPER On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy naiad airs have ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who...
MARY CLEMMER (MARY CLEMMER AMES) May it preserve thee from sorcery, from thy equals and thy kin! Undying be, immortal, exceedingly vi...
ATHARVA VEDA Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
THE DHAMMAPADA Slogans are mere wordsuck...
GABRIEL THY Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.
BIBLE Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many...
BIBLE O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Romeo, Romeo. Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Frailty, thy name is woman!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Zealotry, thy name is religion.
RAIN BOJANGLES Vanity, thy name is vampire.
JIM BUTCHER Frailty, thy name is Alcatraz
BRANDON SANDERSON Insanity, thy name is woman
VIRGINIA ALISON Misery, thy name is Mudslide
MOLLY HARPER Thou hast fair forms that move With queenly tread; Thou hast proud fanes above Thy might...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
BIBLE Rome, Rome, thou art no more As thou hast been! On thy seven hills of yore Thou sat'st a...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS What a disgrace it is to me to remember thy name.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thy mother's name is ominous to children.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When was it that they who dwell upon the earth have not sinned in thy sight? or what people have so ...
COMPTON GAGE Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he ...
BIBLE Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
EMMA GOLDMAN Thy name is in my heart as in a sheep-bell from Cyrano.
EDMUND ROSTAND Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occup...
BIBLE Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the fi...
BIBLE Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 Lord, forgive -- That I have dwelt too long on Golgotha...
PAULINE SCHROY I am Thy servant to do Thy will, and that will is sweeter to me than position or riches or fame, and...
A.W. TOZER And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.
BIBLE Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blak...
WILLIAM BLAKE Exceed not thy actions, but limit not thy mind.
GARY DAVIS Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: B...
WILLIAM COWPER But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Fa...
BIBLE His Pronouncement is Your Announcement -I will make thy name great
IKECHUKWU JOSEPH Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy mo...
FRANCIS QUARLES Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, ...
JOHN LOGAN Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?
GEORGE HERBERT Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:
Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. (Psalms 13:5)
BIBLE And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs: / And the river ...
BIBLE My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: / So shall they be li...
BIBLE The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
BIBLE Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can-- No...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
THOMAS FULLER Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
DR. THOMAS FULLER I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy
eyes—and moreover, I will go w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How shall polluted mortals dare
To sing Thy glory or Thy grace
Beneath Thy feet we lie ...
ISAAC WATTS As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts s...
EMMET FOX If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And tho...
KHALED HOSSEINI Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Ye...
SIR WALTER SCOTT I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
BIBLE And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break ...
BIBLE In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. F...
JOHN WESLEY But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my na...
BIBLE And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou ...
BIBLE Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. <...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every day in thy life is a leaf in thy history.
UNKNOWN Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.
BIBLE The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
BIBLE Grant that I may radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace
to all t...
JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 I know Thee, Saviour, Who T...
CHARLES WESLEY "Wind to thy wings. Light to thy path. Dreams to thy heart.
OLASOT O Fame!--if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phras...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with t...
BIBLE Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, / No winter in thy year.
JOHN LOGAN Almighty God thy will be done in my life as it is in Heaven, in Jesus Christ name. Amen.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nad...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY If "Frailty, thy name is woman", Frailty must be a man named as 'woman
MUNIA KHAN Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties; give me a cigar.
JOHN BYROM Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any like...
BIBLE I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation...
BIBLE Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
BIBLE Thy confidence, shall be thy courage.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Let thy discontents be thy secrets.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe.
THOMAS CARLYLE Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Hamle...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy s...
BIBLE But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms m...
BIBLE And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the ...
BIBLE And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
BIBLE If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or th...
BIBLE MUFFLED CADENCE The sound of shot. The roar of gun. Thy will be done blares the drum. The sudden sho...
N MARSHALL BERTSCH Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, That well-known name awakens all my woes.
ALEXANDER POPE But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
BIBLE Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.
ANNA SEWARD Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, But not remember'd in thy epitaph! -King Henry IV. Part ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round a...
BIBLE To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Let thy body be thy holy temple.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Let thy life be thy gracious treasure.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA

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WILLIAM COWPER His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.
WILLIAM COWPER Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of ...
WILLIAM COWPER Still ending, and beginning still.
WILLIAM COWPER We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And rang...
WILLIAM COWPER Some boundless contiguity of shade.
WILLIAM COWPER No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar.
WILLIAM COWPER Discourse may want an animated "No"To brush the surface, and to make it flow;But still remember, if ...
WILLIAM COWPER Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass los...
WILLIAM COWPER Spare feast! a radish and an egg.
WILLIAM COWPER I was a stricken deer, that left the herd / Long since.
WILLIAM COWPER