Thee Quotes - Page 10

• There are three relations [between thee and other things]: the one to the body which surrounds thee; the second to the divine cause from which all things come to all; and the third to those who live with thee.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Three, Body, Causes

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.88, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Why dost thou not pray... to give thee the faculty of not fearing any of the things which thou fearest, or of not desiring any of the things which thou desirest, or not being pained at anything, rather than pray that any of these things should not happen or happen?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Giving, Praying, Should

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.104, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Imagination, Mind

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.42, Lulu.com

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• Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Present Time, Thyself

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.41, Lulu.com

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• No longer let thy breathing only act in concert with the air which surrounds thee, but let thy intelligence also now be in harmony with the intelligence which embraces all things. For the intelligent power is no less diffused in all parts and pervades all things for him who is willing to draw it to him than the aërial power for him who is able to respire it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Intelligent, Air, Breathing

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.94, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.

  Bill Vaughan

  Ants, Pleasure, Graves

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• Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

  Ben Jonson

  Spring, Men, Glasses

  Ben Jonson (1985). “Ben Jonson”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give .

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Lying, Book

  Ben Jonson (1985). “Ben Jonson”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.

  Robert Herrick

  Heart, Protestants

  'To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything'

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• Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.

  Robert Herrick

  Tree, Despair, Cypresses

  'To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything'

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• I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Differences, Solitude

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.294

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• What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Blood, What If, Liberty

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1842). “The Masque of Anarchy: To which is Added, Queen Liberty; Song--to the Men of England”, p.18

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• How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beautiful, Sunset, Land

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.666, Pearson Education

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• The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been! Thus let thy power, which like the truth Of nature on my passive youth Descended, to my onward life supply Its calm, to one who worships thee, And every form containing thee, Whom, SPIRIT fair, thy spells did bind To fear himself, and love all human kind.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Summer, Autumn, Past

  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' (1816)

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• I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried- "La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!

  John Keats

  Kings, Warrior, Dames

  "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" l. 37 (1820)

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• Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers.

  John Keats

  Flower, Hair, Wind

  'To Autumn' (1820) st. 2

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• I throw a kiss across the sea, I drink the winds as drinking wine, And dream they all are blown from thee, I catch the whisper'd kiss of thine.

  Joaquin Miller

  Dream, Drinking, Wine

  Joaquin Miller (1871). “Songs of the Sierras”, p.8

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• I, a pilgrim of eternity, stand before Thee, O eternal One. Let me not seek to deaden or destroy the desire for Thee that disturbs my heart. Let me rather yield myself to its constraint and go where it leads me. Make me wise to see all things today under the form of eternity, and make me brave to face all the changes in my life which such a vision may entail: through the grace of Christ my Saviour. Amen

  John Baillie

  Wise, Heart, Yield

  John Baillie (1952). “A diary of private prayer”, Scribner

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• Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee; All passeth away: God only shall stay. Patience wins all: Who hath God, needeth nothing; For God is his All.

  Thomas a Kempis

  God, Winning

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• God deceiveth thee not.

  Thomas a Kempis

  God

  Thomas a Kempis (2013). “The Imitation of Christ; Or, the Ecclesiastical Music”, p.324, Cambridge University Press

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• Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Art, Disappointment, Way

  'Thou art indeed just, Lord' (written 1889)

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• Let thy vices die before thee.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Vices, Poor Richard, Dies

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.60, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Poor Richard, Knows

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.

  Samuel Johnson

  Light, Expectations, Waiting

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.637

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• Now the Father draws us from the evil of sin to the goodness of His grace with the might of His measureless power, and He needs all the resources of His strength in order to convert sinners, more than when He was about to make heaven and earth, which He made with His own power without help from any creature. But when He is about to convert a sinner, He always needs the sinner's help. "He converts thee not without thy help," as St. Augustine says.

  Meister Eckhart

  Father, Order, Evil

  "Meister Eckhart's Sermons". Book by Meister Eckhart, 1909.

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