Wife from thy Spouse each blemish hide More than from all the World beside: Let DECENCY be all thy Pride.
Benjamin Franklin
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BIBLE Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
ADELA FLORENCE NICOLSON Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, / Less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
LAURENCE HOPE If hindrances obstruct the way,
Thy magnanimity display.
And let thy strength be seen:
B...
WILLIAM COWPER The childhood shows the man, / As morning shows the day. Be famous then / By wisdom; as thy empire m...
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ATHARVA VEDA Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Let thy discontents be thy secrets.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN But first on earth as vampire sent
Thy corpse shall from its tomb be rent
Then gastly haun...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy
daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or th...
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.
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...
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DEYTH BANGER Grant that I may radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace
to all t...
JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
HIPPOCRATES Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
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BIBLE And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt...
BIBLE Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house:
thy children like olive plants r...
BIBLE Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
BIBLE Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt i...
BIBLE Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
BIBLE Don’t hide yourself from the world and don’t let the world hide himself from you!
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From all that dims Thy calvary O Lamb of God deliver me.
AMY CARMICHAEL 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 every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the s...
BIBLE My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: / So shall they be li...
BIBLE In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
WILLIAM PENN Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till...
AUSTIN DOBSON Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till...
HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors; if thou despairest of suc...
AKHENATON I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy
testimonies are my meditation.
BIBLE And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou ...
BIBLE Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occup...
BIBLE Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast...
BIBLE And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs: / And the river ...
BIBLE If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if th...
FRANCIS QUARLES It is not the end of the world. Don't try to hide it from the kids or the spouse.
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JOHN WESLEY Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of
thee, and so hate thee.
BIBLE The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
BIBLE I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation...
BIBLE Let thy Discontents be Secrets.
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DAVID EDDINGS Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
BIBLE When we are parted, let me lie In some far corner of thy heart Silent, and from the world apart, Lik...
CHARLES HAMILTON AIDE Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Slogans are mere wordsuck...
GABRIEL THY Come, now again, thy woes impart,
Tell all thy sorrows, all thy sin;
We cannot heal the throbb...
GEORGE CRABBE On action alone be thy interest,
Never on its fruits.
Let not the fruits of action be thy moti...
BHAGAVAD GITA Be it not in thy care. Go,
I charge thee, invite them all; let in the tide
Of knaves once mor...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.
GEORGE HERBERT Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent,
All are needed by ea...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, whi...
BIBLE Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
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HENRY VAN DYKE From near thy vicinity, from near thy distance (do I call), remain here, do not follow; do not follo...
ATHARVA VEDA Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll,
And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole,
Ye...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth ar...
BIBLE Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.
BIBLE Deep calleth upon deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy
waves and thy billows are gone over...
BIBLE Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I ...
BIBLE Yet I will look upon thy face again,
My own romantic Bronx, and it will be
A face more pleasan...
JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE All glory to Adonai!
Great is thy love.
Great is thy mercy.
Great is thy faithfulnes...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my father...
SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH 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 Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, / Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!
GEORGE CANNING But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!
GEORGE CANNING When thou attended gloriously from heaven,
Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send
Thy sum...
JOHN MILTON O thou undaunted daughter of desires! / By all thy dower of lights and fires; / By all the eagle in ...
RICHARD CRASHAW Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever...
GEORGE MACDONALD Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first...
MARGARET COURTNEY Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: / So shall thy b...
BIBLE LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was ...
BIBLE Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
MENANDER Let thy maidservant be faithful, strong, and homely
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Let thy breath be, a grace of thanks.
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BIBLE Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
WALTER ISAACSON Thy sum of duty let two words contain,
(O may they graven in thy heart remain!)
Be humble and ...
MATTHEW PRIOR Concluding a short series on forgiveness: To live of love, it is to dry Thy tears, To seek for p...
THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX Let thy spirit move upon him to bring to pass those measures which will lift the burdens of governme...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY This...is the surer, safer, saner way of meditation. For, when the mind is absent from the body it i...
EDGAR CAYCE Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart. -Jesus Christ.
JESUS CHRIST Were't not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honored love,
I rather...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From thy own smile I snatched the snake.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said ...
BIBLE Pardon all but thy selfe.
GEORGE HERBERT Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! l...
ALEXANDER POPE That is very cool that Benjamin Franklin walked the streets here. I read about Franklin in a library...
ASHLEY JOHNSON I could a tale unfold whose lightest wordWould harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,Make thy t...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
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What's a sundial in the shade?
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The things which hurt, instruct.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN What has become clear to you since we last met?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervad...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN