Thou Quotes

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love, Friends, Old

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
Billy Wilder

Ten, Cut, Final

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
Democritus

True, Injustice, Suffer

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
John Donne

Fool, Busy, Through

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.
Francis Thompson

Power, Flower, Far

Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.
Guru Nanak

Eyes, Eye, Thousand

And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.
Pat Robertson

Enjoy, Pretty, Nation

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
Muhammad Iqbal

Country, Made, Why

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
George Herbert

Once, Within, Drink

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Tacitus

Good, Best, Evil

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.
Thomas Holcroft

Soul, Patient, Worse

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
Philip Pullman

Time, Silence, Once

God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
Patrick Gordon

Life, Time, Good

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
Miguel de Cervantes

Thou hast seen nothing yet.
Miguel de Cervantes

Nothing, Seen, Hast

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de Cervantes

Art, Tell, Company

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.
Herman Melville

Live, Lines, Turned

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
Francis Quarles

Faith, God, Charity

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
Muhammad Iqbal

Art, Earth, Heaven

Through the Thou a person becomes I.
Martin Buber

Person, Through, Becomes

Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.
Pythagoras

Good, Done, Act

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
Robert Browning

God, Art, Single

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.
Edward Young

Live, Strange, Less

He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need: if thou sorrow, he will weep; if you wake, he cannot sleep; thus of every grief in heart he with thee doth bear a part.
Richard Barnfield

Heart, Sleep, Help

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
Henry Fielding

Nature, Good, Men

If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
Learned Hand

Justice, Democracy, Keep

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
Oliver Goldsmith

Art, Joke, Unless

I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.
Donny Osmond

Religion, Time, Bad

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
Otto Rank

Wife, Others, Neighbor

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
Barry Cornwall

Life, Beauty, Art

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