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Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villany! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou Fortune's champion that dost never fight But when her humorous ladyship is by To teach thee safety. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 1.


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LORNA SAGE Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs. -King J...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou troublest me; I am not in the vein. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that...
RICHARD HENRY DANA Jesus! why dost Thou love me so? What hast Thou seen in me To make my happiness so great, So dear...
FREDRICK WILLIAM FABER If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, thos...
JOHN DONNE Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those...
JOHN DONNE To whom thy secret thou dost tell, To him thy freedom thou dost sell
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AKHENATON AKHENATON Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thys...
AKHENATON Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thys...
AKHENATON What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, thos...
JOHN DONNE Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
BIBLE Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so,
Fo...
JOHN DONNE Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?
WILLIAM C. BRYANT Where hast thou wandered. gentle gale, to find The perfumes thou dost bring?
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, ...
CHRISTOPHER LOVE Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
BIBLE Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine, and be not diffident
Of wisdom, ...
JOHN MILTON Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee...
BIBLE Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which prod...
JULES VERNE Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou a...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unt...
BIBLE Thou, my slave,
As thou report'st thyself, was then her servant,
And for thou wast a spiri...
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BIBLE Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not ...
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JOHN MILTON When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
BIBLE The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither ...
BIBLE O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 Death, be not proud, though some have called thee ...
JOHN DONNE Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes And interchanged love tokens with my child; T...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Fa...
BIBLE Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child Than t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou li...
AESCHYLUS Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude. -As You Like It. Act ii....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, ...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever...
BIBLE Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and pu...
BIBLE For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if t...
BIBLE If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
BIBLE Thou has heard the words of Christ. . . .
Dost thou weep, when I have thee, Poor soul, what ai...
RICHARD BAXTER That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust, if thou seest dust.
BROTHER ANGELUS That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust, if thou seest dust.
BROTHER ANGELUS Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Thou shalt go thou shalt return never in battle shalt thou perish. [Lat., Ibis redibis non morier...
ORACLE Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.
BIBLE Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pai...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space bein...
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SAINT AUGUSTINE Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
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ST. AUGUSTINE When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when the...
BIBLE Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
FRANCIS QUARLES Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that...
THOMAS HOOD Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
BIBLE Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inq...
BIBLE But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom th...
BIBLE O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.
WILLIAM COWPER Work thou not on energized equipment, for if thou dost, thy fellow workers will surely buy beers fo...
THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT FOR TECHNICIANS In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt...
BIBLE Prophet of evil! never hadst thou yet A cheerful word for me. To mark the signs Of coming mi...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound...
ANGELUS SILESIUS Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost fa...
BIBLE Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou sh...
BIBLE When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that w...
JACOB BOEHME No more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the very last mite.
BIBLE 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.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath
To say to me that thou art out of breath?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift ...
BIBLE When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not ...
BIBLE Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? / Jesus answe...
BIBLE When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art...
ANSARI Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar
BIBLE Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold th...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while t...
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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...
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