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Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.


Adela Florence Nicolson

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Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, / Less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
LAURENCE HOPE Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest, Ri...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Mark it, nuncle.
Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wife from thy Spouse each blemish hide More than from all the World beside: Let DECENCY be all thy P...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 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) A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "what a dust I raise."
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break ...
BIBLE Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious!
HéLOïSE D'ARGENTEUIL Less at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance, Ma...
GEORGE HERBERT The one leaving gets paid less than the one coming in the door.
DONNA JOHNSON How shall polluted mortals dare
To sing Thy glory or Thy grace
Beneath Thy feet we lie ...
ISAAC WATTS Fortune, good night; smile once more, turn thy wheel
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Oh, treacherous night! thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath ...
AARON HILL Yet will that beauteous image makeThe dreary sea less drearAnd thy remembered smile will wakeThe hop...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: B...
WILLIAM COWPER Slogans are mere wordsuck...
GABRIEL THY It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what ...
FRANCIS BACON Alas! when duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel, and said, W...
FRANCIS BACON If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy ...
EPICTETUS 'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United...
CANDICE MILLARD Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity...
CARL SAGAN The enlightened worry less than others,
quarrel less than others,
fight less than others,<...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Yet will that beauteous image make
The dreary sea less drear
And thy remembered smile will w...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. -Twelfth Night. A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, B...
BRYAN PROCTER Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land, Wherein thou liest in reputation sick; And thou, too ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
BERNARD WILLIAMS And as the elevator descends, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even farther down...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes ...
ADELA FLORENCE NICOLSON Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by ...
ADELA FLORENCE NICOLSON Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
ADELA FLORENCE NICOLSON Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?
ADELA FLORENCE NICOLSON O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat ...
WILLIAM BLAKE But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Fa...
BIBLE It's probably worth a lot less in your mind than the house next door where everything's trimmed up.
LISA HEGLAND But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee
Came not all hell broke loose? Is pain to them
L...
JOHN MILTON Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's plou...
ROBERT BURNS i less than 4 you. [ ( because its bigger than 3 ) ]
MEGAN I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could...
ROWAN WILLIAMS Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occup...
BIBLE Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS Lord of thy presence and no land beside. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the fi...
BIBLE Forbear to sleep the nights, and fast the days; Compare dead happiness with living woe; Think that t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe th...
ED ROYCE I hope thou shalt never retreat beneath the ground. The sun is thy inheritance. The sky is thy birth...
M.T. ANDERSON The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
MAUREEN DOWD The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
MAUREEN DOWD The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
MAUREEN DOWD Cytherea, How bravely thou becom'st thy bed, fresh lily, And whiter than the sheets!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Choose more on less than less on more.
SAW RUB Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.
SISTER CORITA KENT Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.
SISTER CORITA KENT I understand being less sexy than Osama bin Laden, but not less sexy than Carrot Top. That, I find o...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED All of my characters are less than perfect.
BARBARA PARK The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no les...
GEORGE SANTAYANA I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
SCIPIO AFRICANUS Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought aga...
BIBLE Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, / Unfriendly to society's chief joys, / Thy worst effe...
WILLIAM COWPER 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 Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot de...
FRANCIS QUARLES Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defe...
FRANCIS QUARLES A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken t...
JACK HORNER Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books ar...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I wa...
J.K. ROWLING No net less wide than a man's whole heart, nor less fine of mesh than love, will hold the sacred Fis...
C.S. LEWIS The ones that have grown faster than others are the ones that have less funding than others.
FRED DUBARD As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less t...
JACK LONDON The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less...
MARILYN VOS SAVANT The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less...
MARILYN VOS SAVANT Ill weed grows fast
PROVERB My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against ...
DAVID EDDINGS 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 Great, good, and just, could I but rate My grief with thy too rigid fate, I'd weep the world i...
JAMES GRAHAME, FIRST MARQUIS OF MONTROSE I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
BIBLE Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on...
ERASMUS DARWIN Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam! afar / Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; / Or on w...
ERASMUS DARWIN There was no communication for less than 60 seconds. Jay Street took over in less than a minute.
CHARLES SEATON less than an hour.
GREG HICKS Concluding a short series on authenticity: Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: W...
JOHN DONNE Most Iraqis remain less secure than they were under Saddam, less secure even than they were in the f...
JAMES DOBBINS Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
MARQUIS DE SADE The true way to be humble is not to stoop till thou art smaller than thyself, but to stand at thy re...
PHILLIPS BROOKS If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or th...
BIBLE I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation...
BIBLE What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Noth...
E.B. WHITE The animals make less mistakes than the humans.
BILL BERLONI Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting—
“Get thee back ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pou...
ED BEGLEY, JR. Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
STENDHAL Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit
STENDHAL Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
ARAB PROVERB

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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ou...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or lat...
FLORENCE SHINN Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: ...
FLORENCE KING It's about how to make the best meat loaf or fried chicken or macaroni and cheese. It's about brilli...
TYLER FLORENCE It's a more intimate setting. We wanted our brides to have a good selection but be able to remember ...
FLORENCE BELCHER We're setting the show up like a wedding. The fashion show will take place with the brides walking d...
FLORENCE BELCHER [By eating fish] you may be replacing a fatty meal like a bacon cheeseburger with something low in f...
FLORENCE SHEEHAN I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
FLORENCE WELCH I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do d...
FLORENCE WELCH I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my prot...
FLORENCE WELCH She had met people who had tried to fit in. She had met people who tried to stand out. But until the...
MILLIE FLORENCE I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
FLORENCE WELCH Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any e...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this - 'de...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE How very little can be done under the spirit of fear
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few do...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute th...
FLORENCE KING In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.
FLORENCE KING The concept of being a locavore, or one who chooses whenever possible to incorporate locally grown o...
TYLER FLORENCE What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about whic...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE You ask me why I do not write something.... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they o...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE When I used to live in the Brewster Projects, I always thought it would be fantastic to have a phone...
FLORENCE BALLARD As a chef, I prefer fish over meat,
TYLER FLORENCE I don't think there's anything wrong with a hot dog or other convenience foods, as long as t...
TYLER FLORENCE I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called ...
FLORENCE WELCH Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and m...
FLORENCE KING I can expect no sympathy or help from (my family).
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE It was kind of schizophrenic at times because she was still mom. But after a while, in a weird way, ...
FLORENCE SEIDELMAN