Definition of Thine

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Definition of Thine

Thine

A form of the possessive case of the pronoun thou, now superseded in common discourse by your, the possessive of you, but maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual language of the Friends, or Quakers.

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Thine Quotations

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare

This above all; to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
Anaxagoras

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
John Donne

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
Friedrich Schiller

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.
Ben Jonson

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Thine Translations

thine in German is dein
thine in Spanish is tuyo

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