Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.


William Shakespeare

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
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Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.
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Thou wilt never be spiritually minded and godly unless thou art silent concerning other men's matter...
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If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?
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Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
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Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
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Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou a...
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art ra...
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art ra...
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Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous in...
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Stoop where thou wilt, thy careless hand Some random bud will meet; Thou canst not tread, but ...
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For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
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Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt
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Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.
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Love as thou wilt
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And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift ...
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O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.
RABBI BEN AZAI
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
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And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of morta...
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Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps tho...
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[I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily a...
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When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finis...
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Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
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Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
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Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou ...
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Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou ...
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Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
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Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou ...
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Thou truly art in jest. Art thou not small/Of stature, if thou art a stormtrooper?

-Leia ...
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
ALEISTER CROWLEY
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
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"Do what thou wilt" shall be the whole of the law.
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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
MARCUS AURELIUS
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.
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Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? / Wilt thou break a leaf driven to a...
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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound...
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No, thou villain, thou art full of piety
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Direct not him whose way himself will choose: 'Tis breath thou lackest and that; breath wilt thou lo...
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Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
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There is not room for Death, / Nor atom that his might could render void: / Thou - Thou art Being an...
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Where 'er thou art be thou (w)holy there.
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If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art...
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How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath
To say to me that thou art out of breath?
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TITANIA Out of this wood do not desire to go; Thou shalt remain here whether thou wilt or no.
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In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast...
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For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
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for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return
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Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now w...
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Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.
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My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escuriall.
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London, thou art the flower of cities all!
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Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou li...
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'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; a...
LAURENCE STERNE
Thou art thine art
MARCO D. EVCI
That which God writes on thy forehead, thou wilt come to it
QURAN
Thou art not dead! Thou art the whole Of life that quickens in the sod.
CHARLES HANSON TOWNE
If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
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Thou art God.
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind as Man's ingratitude.
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Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
EPICURUS
Dionysus. Wilt thou be led By me, and try the venture?
EURIPIDES
Tho' lost to sight, to mem'ry dear/ Thou ever wilt remain.
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For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still, / Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon ...
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When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that w...
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And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare? / And he said unto them, Behold, when ye ar...
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And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him...
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Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
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THOU ART NO THOR!
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude: Thy tooth is ...
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Blow, blow thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude; Thy tooth is not so keen, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Work and thou wilt bless the dayEre the toil be done;They that work not cannot pray,Cannot feel the ...
JOHN SULLIVAN DWIGHT
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? / Can...
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still, Out-top...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant
MUSLIH-UDDIN SADI
If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
WILLIAM PENN
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with...
BIBLE
And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: neverthele...
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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overst...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A politician is one that would circumvent God.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d...
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...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE