Wert thou a leopard thou wert germane to the lion


William Shakespeare

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Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!
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Whatsoe'er thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON)
Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?
CHARLES LAMB
Thou wert best set - thy lower part where thy nose stands
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Or were I in the wildest waste, Sae bleak and bare, sae bleak and bare, The desert were a para...
ROBERT BURNS
Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem...
THOMAS MOORE
Hail to thee blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, ...
GEORGE LINLEY
"Thou wert not, Solomon! in all thy glory Array'd," the lilies cry, "in robes like ours; How ...
HORACE (HORATIO) SMITH
Strength of my heart, I need not fail,
Not mind to fear but to obey,
With such a Leader, w...
AMY CARMICHAEL
Never propose to thy self such a God, as thou wert not bound to imitate: Thou mistakest God, if thou...
JOHN DONNE
As if thou e'er wert angry But with thy tailor! and yet that poor shred Can bring more to the...
PHILIP MASSINGER
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under fee...
BIBLE
They've always remained close to Van Wert. They'll come to town and visit us, and visit the Y. Brend...
LARRY BOWERSOCK
[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or,...
HéLOïSE D'ARGENTEUIL
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, / How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long sh...
BIBLE
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being:
Wh...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou a...
BIBLE
We have a lion, tiger, liger, which is the father is a lion and the mother is a tiger, black and spo...
TIPPI HEDREN
Something handmade is so much more meaningful.
BETH WERT
Business is unbelievable. It's off the charts, out of control. I don't normally believe in God, but ...
BETH WERT
He's given me a second chance with this adorable business.
BETH WERT
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Thou seest, thou wicked varlet, now, what’s come upon thee: thou art to continue, now, thou varlet...
LORNA SAGE
Nun, wenn du siehst, wie etwas aus dem Meer kriecht und zu atmen versucht… Sag ihm, es sei die Mü...
TERRY PRATCHETT
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
Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art...
ANSARI
Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest, Ri...
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Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft ...
BIBLE
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO
Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villany! Thou ever strong upon t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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
See! he sinks Without a word; and his ensanguined bier Is vacant in the west, while far and n...
REV. FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
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
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast...
BIBLE
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
ST. AUGUSTINE
Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bys...
YEHUDA BAUER
The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel.
COMPTON GAGE
Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter!
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Mark it, nuncle.
Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less...
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
Rome, Rome, thou art no more As thou hast been! On thy seven hills of yore Thou sat'st a...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS
Thou truly art in jest. Art thou not small/Of stature, if thou art a stormtrooper?

-Leia ...
IAN DOESCHER
How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath
To say to me that thou art out of breath?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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
Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever...
BIBLE
Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.
BRANCH RICKEY
If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound...
ANGELUS SILESIUS
Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee...
BIBLE
Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pai...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
BIBLE
As thou hast sown, so shalt thou reap.
PINARIUS
No, thou villain, thou art full of piety
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.
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My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escuriall.
GEORGE HERBERT
Look here, he cries (to give him words): Thou feathered clay, thou scum of birds! Look here, t...
AARON HILL
If thou believest that Christ was crucified for the sins of the world, thou must with Him be crucifi...
JOHN ARNDT
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? / Wilt thou break a leaf driven to a...
BIBLE
Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but t...
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Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
HORACE
Whatever kind of word thou speakest, the like shalt thou bear.
GREEK PROVERB
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SPIRO T. AGNEW
He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased';...
JULIAN OF NORWICH
He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased';...
JULIAN OF NORWICH
For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not ...
BIBLE
Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, w...
BIBLE
He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then th...
BIBLE
Thou hast given a right judgment, but why judge thou not thyself also?
COMPTON GAGE
Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
If you want to do something that really changes someone’s life, the best thing you can do is make ...
JOHN STAHL-WERT
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Though thou speak'st truth, methink thou speak'st not well.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Where 'er thou art be thou (w)holy there.
MURRAY I. MESZAROS
Thou shalt go thou shalt return never in battle shalt thou perish. [Lat., Ibis redibis non morier...
ORACLE
Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystande...
KEN WYTSMA
See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.
BIBLE
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him...
BIBLE
Thou hast fair forms that move With queenly tread; Thou hast proud fanes above Thy might...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS
Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
To whom thy secret thou dost tell, To him thy freedom thou dost sell
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
BIBLE

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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