Thee Quotes - Page 14

• Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea Of grass that waves around thee!

  John Clare

  Lonely, Memories, Fate

  John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.700, Delphi Classics

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• Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.

  Zoroaster

  Desire, World, Treasure

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• Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Art, Home, Sleep

  Ebenezer Elliott (1835). “Kerhonah ; The Vernal Walk ; Win Hill: And Other Poems”, p.77

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• O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

  Thomas Ken

  Blessed, Giving, Grace

  Thomas Ken, Esq. William HAWKINS (of the Middle Temple.), James Thomas ROUND (1838). “The Prose Works of ... T. K. ... To which are Added Some of His Letters (never Before Published) and a Short Account of His Life by W. Hawkins ... Collected by J. T. Round”, p.365

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• Do what thy manhood bids thee do.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Manhood

  Sir Richard Francis Burton (1894). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law”

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• Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.

  Rumi

  War, Faces, Quitting

  Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.514, Delphi Classics

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• The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.

  Bear Bryant

  Children, Kissing, Men

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• They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Summer, Art

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.131

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• Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Strong, Sadness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.152

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• Answer July-
  Where is the Bee-
  Where is the Blush-
  Where is the Hay?
  
  Ah, said July-
  Where is the Seed-
  Where is the Bud-
  Where is the May-
  Answer Thee-Me-

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, July, Bud

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “Emily Dickinson”, p.13, Moondance Press

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• Here 'neath veils, my Saviour darkly I behold; To my thirsting spirit all thy light unfold; Face to face in heaven let me come to thee, And the blessed vision of thy glory see.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Blessed, Light, Heaven

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• Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee.
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  Suetonius

  Latin, Hail, Salute

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• Other Courtesies have been -
  Other Courtesy may be -
  We commend ourselves to thee
  Paragon of Chivalry.

  Emily Dickinson

  May, Chivalry, Courtesy

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.505, Harvard University Press

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• Thee lift me, and I lift thee, and together we ascend.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Together, Lifts

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• God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore. This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules: 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.

  Matthew Arnold

  God, School, Church

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• Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee. He will not fail thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.

  David

  Strong, House, Failing

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• Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?

  William Blake

  Sheep, Lambs, Littles

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Lamb'

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• But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!

  Mark Twain

  Humorous, Ophelia, Marble

  1884 The Duke's version of Hamlet's soliloquy, combining elements of other speeches by Hamlet and pieces of Macbeth. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.21.

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• Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Death, Fall, Light

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies”, p.18

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• Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky's brow my glorious creed I trace.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  God, Believe, Sky

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies”, p.16

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• Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find.

  Richard Barnfield

  Friendship, Wind, Faithful

  Richard Barnfield, “An Ode”

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• If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Grief, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.55, Delphi Classics

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• A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Eye, Littles, Graves

  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.116, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Bright flower! whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care And all the long year through the heir Of joy or sorrow, Methinks that there abides in thee Some concord with humanity, Given to no other flower I see The forest through.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Home, Years

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.365

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• Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.

  William Wordsworth

  Water, England, Needs

  "London, 1802" l. 1 (1807)

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