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Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all


Henry Wotton, Sr.

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LLOYD HOBBARD-MITCHELL For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
BIBLE And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised p...
MARGARET CAVENDISH He that hath lands hath quarrells.
GEORGE HERBERT You, Lord, are pervading in all, and yet, the Creator keeps Himself concealed.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 What art Thou then, my God? What, but the Lor...
ST. AUGUSTINE Though physician to others, yet himself full of sores
LATIN PROVERB Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put ...
BALTASAR GRACIAN Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madl...
STEPHEN LEACOCK Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madl...
STEPHEN LEACOCK The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
BIBLE Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put ...
BALTASAR GRACIAN But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
BIBLE As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet posses...
BIBLE Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet ...
JOHN NEWTON The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet nothing can to nothing fall,
Nor any place be empty quite;
Therefore I think my breast...
JOHN DONNE The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. Job 1:21
BIBLE Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which...
BIBLE The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in th...
BIBLE Authority, though it err like others, hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, that skins the vice off...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offense returning, to regain Love once posse...
JOHN MILTON Broadway is a place where people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't need to im...
HENRY WOTTON, SR. Love lodged in a woman's breast, Is but a guest
HENRY WOTTON, SR. Where strained, sardonic smiles are glozing still, And grief is forced to laugh against her will.
HENRY WOTTON, SR. He first deceased, She for a little, tried; To live without him, Liked it not, and died
HENRY WOTTON, SR. Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries
HENRY WOTTON, SR. An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without ...
HENRY WOTTON, SR. An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
HENRY WOTTON, SR. Love lodged in a woman's breast, Is but a guest
HENRY WOTTON SR. He first deceased, She for a little, tried; To live without him, Liked it not, and died
HENRY WOTTON SR. An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without ...
HENRY WOTTON SR. An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
HENRY WOTTON SR. Broadway is a place where people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't need to im...
HENRY WOTTON SR. The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he unders...
THOMAS À KEMPIS He hath eaten me out of house and home. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and th...
BIBLE Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have no...
BIBLE For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all t...
BIBLE Some cursed fraud Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown, And me with thee hath ruined.
JOHN MILTON The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he...
BIBLE The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.
BIBLE The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Conscience is just a polite word for cowardice. No civilised man regrets a pleasure.
LORD HENRY WOTTON The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of ...
BIBLE Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses...
BIBLE Patrick Henry aligned himself against ratification. So did Richard Henry Lee.
DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.
BIBLE Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderful...
BIBLE The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath desp...
BIBLE And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him,...
BIBLE As in a tree, there is more sap in an Arm of the tree, than in a little sprig; but the sprig hath th...
JEREMIAH BURROUGHS All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid ...
BIBLE The Lord Himself chants, and the Lord Himself inspires others to chant.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when...
BIBLE That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true — not true...
HERMAN MELVILLE As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater...
BIBLE And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
BIBLE And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his pl...
BIBLE After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid sieg...
BIBLE Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah mi...
BIBLE Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you...
ELIZABETH I The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.
EZRA STILES I’m reminded of a book my father used to read me,” she said. “A bunch of elves and things get ...
LEMONY SNICKET The road goes ever on and on
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native lan...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though...
BIBLE And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I...
BIBLE And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though ...
ANONYMOUS Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812 Relieve...
JEREMY TAYLOR For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you...
BIBLE They're sensational!
HARRY STYLES If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.
ANUJ SOMANY While majority find business in berating the spoilt brat “Problem” for distressing and disturbin...
ANUJ SOMANY To be Thankful to someone who has helped change your life for ever is a small consolation for what t...
GARY F EVANS... I need to learn bigger words and do those (things).
GREAT APE It's possible, ... He's been spotted down there a couple of times. We have nothing on him yet, thoug...
ANTHONY CLARK Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar kin...
BIBLE Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? / He that hath cle...
BIBLE Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
DAVID MALLET I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye tur...
BIBLE Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Instead of complaining that God had hidden Himself, you will give Him thanks for not having revealed...
BLAISE PASCAL And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word...
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DENNIS MILLER And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voic...
BIBLE For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
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ST. AUGUSTINE What custom hath endeared We part with sadly, though we prize it not
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FRANCIS BACON, SR. In charity there is no excess.
FRANCIS BACON, SR. No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
WALTER RALEIGH, SR. The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
WALTER RALEIGH, SR. The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth
WALTER RALEIGH, SR. Romance is a love affair in other that domestic surroundings
WALTER RALEIGH, SR. The difference between a rich man and a poor man, is this - the former eats hen when he pleases, and...
WALTER RALEIGH, SR. The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
WALTER RALEIGH, SR. If the heart be right, it matters not which way the head lies
WALTER RALEIGH, SR. Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thin...
WALTER RALEIGH, SR. In examinations, those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
WALTER RALEIGH, SR. Love is a durable fire in the mind ever burning; never sick, never old, never dead from itself never...
WALTER RALEIGH, SR. All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be t...
HUGH WALPOLE, SR. Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
HUGH WALPOLE, SR. Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world
HUGH WALPOLE, SR. 'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.
HUGH WALPOLE, SR. The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with wh...
HUGH WALPOLE, SR. I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive coun...
FRANCIS BACON SR. It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Courage is not merely a virtue; it is the virtue. Without it, there are no other virtues.
WILLIAM TEMPLE SR. Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
JAMES DEWAR SR. Like the strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and ...
FRANCIS BACON SR.