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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.


William Wycherley

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JOHN WESLEY Justice and Judgment are thy throne Yet wondrous is thy grace; While truth and mercy joined in one...
ISAAC WATTS Such as thy words are, such will thine affections be esteemed; and such as thine affections, will be...
SOCRATES Slogans are mere wordsuck...
GABRIEL THY Love thy neighbor, yet pull not down thy hedge
ENGLISH PROVERB May it preserve thee from sorcery, from thy equals and thy kin! Undying be, immortal, exceedingly vi...
ATHARVA VEDA As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts s...
EMMET FOX And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou ...
BIBLE Tell nothing to thy friend which thy enemy may not know
DANISH PROVERB Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.
GUILLAUME DE SALLUSTE DU BARTAS Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. <...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occup...
BIBLE Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil/ O'er books consumed the midnight oil?
JOHN GAY Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
ARAB PROVERB Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Hamle...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call,
for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.
JOHN DONNE Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasan...
JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land, Wherein thou liest in reputation sick; And thou, too ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Grant that I may radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace
to all t...
JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation...
BIBLE Thy confidence, shall be thy courage.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Let thy discontents be thy secrets.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 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 Though desolateThe way may seem, command thy fate.Send forth thy thought -Create--CREATE!
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants r...
BIBLE How shall polluted mortals dare
To sing Thy glory or Thy grace
Beneath Thy feet we lie ...
ISAAC WATTS But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms m...
BIBLE Let thy body be thy holy temple.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Let thy life be thy gracious treasure.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Let thy pure act be thy prayer.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Let thy holy temple be thy body.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with t...
BIBLE Exceed not thy actions, but limit not thy mind.
GARY DAVIS Thy shoes shall be of iron and brass: and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
BIBLE Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
BIBLE Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!) Be humble and ...
MATTHEW PRIOR Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hea...
THOMAS FULLER Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the fi...
BIBLE Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
BIBLE Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
BIBLE I prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy tidings.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy...
BIBLE Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
HIPPOCRATES If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or th...
BIBLE On action alone be thy interest,
Never on its fruits.
Let not the fruits of action be thy moti...
BHAGAVAD GITA To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.
BILL VAUGHAN To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.
BILL VAUGHAN Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end;
Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought aga...
BIBLE But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
BIBLE I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy
eyes—and moreover, I will go w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And again, whom should I serve? should I not serve in the presence of his son? as I have served in t...
BIBLE Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can-- No...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
THOMAS FULLER Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
DR. THOMAS FULLER "Wind to thy wings. Light to thy path. Dreams to thy heart.
OLASOT Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, ...
BIBLE Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON For where thy treasure is, there also will thy heart be.
ANONYMOUS The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt...
BIBLE Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blak...
WILLIAM BLAKE Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many...
BIBLE Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset? Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break ...
BIBLE Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
BIBLE Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe.
THOMAS CARLYLE Rich, only to be wretched, thy great fortunesAre made thy chief afflictions.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set a...
BIBLE Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else fee will Would not admit.
JOHN MILTON If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: B...
WILLIAM COWPER Concluding a short series on authenticity: Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: W...
JOHN DONNE Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these w...
BIBLE I could a tale unfold whose lightest wordWould harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,Make thy t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, ...
JOHN LOGAN Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
BIBLE Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
BIBLE To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if th...
FRANCIS QUARLES Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.
BIBLE Be mild, and cleave to gentle things,
thy glory and thy happiness be there.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.
BIBLE Why do such lies spew from thy mouth?
ASTRAEA L. SKYLAR Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
FRANCIS QUARLES Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.
THE TALMUD Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet
THE TALMUD Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
BIBLE Into thy hands, O Lord. Into thy hands.
HENRY IRVING The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
BIBLE Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt ...
BIBLE Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Ye...
SIR WALTER SCOTT When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
BIBLE, MATTHEW 6:3

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by...
WILLIAM PENN A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with t...
WILLIAM PENN For we put the power in the people.
WILLIAM PENN They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
WILLIAM PENN I return you many thanks for the honour you have done me; but Europe is not to be saved by any singl...
WILLIAM PITT Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE