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Forgiveness is better than revenge.
PITTACUS OF MITYLENE
If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swi...
PITTACUS LORE
Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
SUN TZU
Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very hap...
PLUTARCH
But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
BIBLE
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
BIBLE
Tell nothing to thy friend which thy enemy may not know
DANISH PROVERB
Riddle of destiny, who can show / What thy short visit meant, or know / What thy errand here below?
CHARLES LAMB
Slogans are mere wordsuck...
GABRIEL THY
When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
BIBLE, MATTHEW 6:3
But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
BIBLE
That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.
PITTACUS
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
PITTACUS
Know the right moment.
PITTACUS
Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occup...
BIBLE
This is war, and people are going to die. Friends are going to die. I've come to accept the pain, to...
PITTACUS LORE
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
THOMAS FULLER
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
THOMAS FULLER
Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the fi...
BIBLE
Thy dark eyes beckon me into the darkest nether world of dark galaxies and darker supernovas. Foreve...
AVIJEET DAS
If thy meditation tends to fill thy note-book with notions, and good sayings, concerning God, and no...
RICHARD BAXTER
And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break ...
BIBLE
Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning. And wheresoe...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms m...
BIBLE
If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or th...
BIBLE
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk ...
BIBLE
Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.
GUILLAUME DE SALLUSTE DU BARTAS
Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
ARAB PROVERB
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 coming is companionedBy presences of bliss;The rivers and the little leavesAll know how good it ...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN
Thy shoes shall be of iron and brass: and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
BIBLE
Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress.
MAIMONIDES
Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.
MAIMONIDES
Can Christ be in thy heart, and thou not know it? Can one king be dethroned and another crowned in t...
WILLIAM GURNALL
The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt...
BIBLE
In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. F...
JOHN WESLEY
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.
BIBLE
Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
NICHOLAS BRETON
Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians ...
BIBLE
How shall polluted mortals dare
To sing Thy glory or Thy grace
Beneath Thy feet we lie ...
ISAAC WATTS
Deep calleth upon deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over...
BIBLE
Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 I know Thee, Saviour, Who T...
CHARLES WESLEY
You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.
LEON SPINKS
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
MAIMONIDES
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
TOM PETERS
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
BIBLE
Procastination is like shifting today's opportunity till tomorrow & you know what? Opportunity comes...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can-- No...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants r...
BIBLE
"Wind to thy wings. Light to thy path. Dreams to thy heart.
OLASOT
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
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
EURIPIDES
At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
BIBLE
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
BIBLE
If you pray for thy neighbour, sow a seed of love in thy heart.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's k...
BIBLE
Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the...
BIBLE
Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.
BIBLE
Thy father's merit sets thee up to view, And shows thee in the fairest point of light, To make...
JOSEPH ADDISON
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
Bird of the amber beak, Bird of the golden wing! Thy dower is thy carolling; Thou hast n...
EDMUND C. STEDMAN
I prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy tidings.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
BIBLE
If you pray for thy neighbour, you sow a seed of love in thy heart.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts s...
EMMET FOX
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. Especiall...
W.G. HOSKINS
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without cea...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without cea...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest So wonderfully built among the reeds Of the lagoo...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, ...
JOHN LOGAN
May it preserve thee from sorcery, from thy equals and thy kin! Undying be, immortal, exceedingly vi...
ATHARVA VEDA
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
Let thy pure act be thy prayer.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Let thy holy temple be thy body.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If half thy outward graces had been placed About the thoughts and counsels of thy heart.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she is thy father's near kinswoman.
BIBLE
Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
BIBLE
And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs: / And the river ...
BIBLE
Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought aga...
BIBLE
Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.
BIBLE
I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I o...
RICHARD HOVEY
This...is the surer, safer, saner way of meditation. For, when the mind is absent from the body it i...
EDGAR CAYCE
On action alone be thy interest,
Never on its fruits.
Let not the fruits of action be thy moti...
BHAGAVAD GITA
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
BIBLE
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
BIBLE
Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
BIBLE

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I am not who you thik I am,' I say.
'Who are you?'
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Are you sure you want us to keep calling you 'Six'?"

"You can say it's short for somethin...
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I smile at her. "You're an angel."

"Nah," she says.
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It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestin...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the firs...
JOAN OF ARC
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
For it is in giving that we receive.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... sett...
JOAN OF ARC
I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC
Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emer...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
All what we hope for is that a day will come, when we have all gone, when people will say that this ...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the imp...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a h...
JOAN OF ARC
There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.
MARY OF TECK
Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangel...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Ca...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Honor and glory are indeed due to God and to Him alone, but He will accept neither of them if they b...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Fou...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Foun...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Beginning a short series on prayer: Wherever... thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If th...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts, ...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song ...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Fou...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
DIOGENES OF SINOPE
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
DIOGENES OF SINOPE
Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 Jesus, as a mother you ga...
ANSELM OF CANTERBURY
Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 For I seek not to under...
ANSELM OF CANTERBURY
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwell...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first tw...
GREGORY OF NYSSA
Business tomorrow.
ARCHIAS OF THEBES
For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to lea...
IRENAEUS OF LYONS
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it doe...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when y...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream...
THéRèSE OF LISIEUX
Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend t...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA