Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate


William Shakespeare

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If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little
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Shall I compare thee to a Shoggoth?
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Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
BIBLE
Remember thee! remember thee!
Till Lethe quench life's burning stream
Remorse and sham...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON
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CASSANDRA CLARE
The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel.
COMPTON GAGE
Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with r...
AKHENATON AKHENATON
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AKHENATON
Soul of the Age! / The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! / My Shakespeare, rise; I will no...
BEN JONSON
Hail, guest, we ask not what thou art; If friend, we greet thee, hand and heart; If stranger, ...
PAUL ELMER MORE
Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou a...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND
If thou art called to pass through tribulations; if thou art in perils among false brethren; if thou...
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JOSEPH SMITH JR.
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the ga...
BIBLE
Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA)
And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in that ...
BIBLE
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JOHN DONNE
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; / In that I command thee thi...
BIBLE
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
As if thou e'er wert angry But with thy tailor! and yet that poor shred Can bring more to the...
PHILIP MASSINGER
Methink'st thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Art thou a pen, whose task shall be To drown in ink What writers think? Oh, wisely write...
ETHEL LYNN BEERS (ETHELINDA ELIOT)
I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not ...
BIBLE
A happier lot were mine, If I must lose thee, to go down to earth, For I shall have no hope wh...
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The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel; for the world hast fast to pass away-
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Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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Our little systems have their day;
They have their day and cease to be…
And thou, O Lord...
ALFRED TENNYSON
Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him ...
BIBLE
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at al...
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Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child Than t...
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BIBLE
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
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BIBLE
Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend
EBENEZER ELLIOTT
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BIBLE
Entreat me not to leave thee,

Or return from following after thee—

For whith...
CASSANDRA CLARE
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Myself have made thee so;
Yea, thou art fair indeed,
Whe...
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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
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CUTHBERT SOUP
All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
ROBERT OWEN
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RICHARD BAXTER
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For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
BIBLE
I'll give thee armor to keep off that word; Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, To comfort the...
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From the beginning, look, what thou desires to see, it shall be shew thee.
COMPTON GAGE
But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
BIBLE
Belatedly I loved thee, O Beauty so ancient and so new, belatedly I loved thee. For see, thou wast w...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, A...
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BIBLE
For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring fr...
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UGOLINO OF MONTEGIORGIO
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THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX
What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? / Sharp arrows of...
BIBLE
Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
BIBLE
And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she sa...
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All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer
ROBERT OWEN
All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
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Send me nor this, nor that, to increase my store,
But swear thou think'st I love thee, and no m...
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They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vestur...
BIBLE
Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy! Float near me; do not yet depart! ...
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The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine...
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So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be qu...
BIBLE
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream
GEORGE LINLEY
In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I wil...
BIBLE
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Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou a...
BIBLE
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art ra...
JUNIUS
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art ra...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Rome, Rome, thou art no more As thou hast been! On thy seven hills of yore Thou sat'st a...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken...
BIBLE
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GARETH ROBERTS
Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say...
BIBLE
They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
BIBLE
Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while t...
JOHN HOSKINS
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LAMAN BLANCHARD
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PETER SELLEY
O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
SIR JACOB ASTLEY
When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that w...
JACOB BOEHME
Thou art so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin.
EDWARD YOUNG
O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.
CHARLES SPURGEON
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
MARCUS AURELIUS
There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each da...
MITCH ALBOM
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Hast thou more of pain or pleasure! . . . . Endless...
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Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell abou...
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My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Good-morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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