Thee Quotes - Page 18

• Do right! and thou hast naught to fear;Right hath a power that makes thee strong.The night is dark, but light is near;The grief is short, the joy is long.

  Thomas Cogswell Upham

  Strong, Grief, Dark

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• My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and, through life and death, to force my way unto Thee.

  Christian Scriver

  Life And Death, Way, Helping

  Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems, Or, Invisible Things Understood by Things that are Made”, p.145

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• O money, money, money. I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, but I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.

  Ogden Nash

  Thinking, Wonder, Holy

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• Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wall, Hate, Hypocrite

  馬可•奧里略 (Marcus Aurelius) (2014). “沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著”, p.67, 德威國際文化

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• 0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Beautiful, Dream, Years

  'America the Beautiful' (1893)

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• It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage.
  [Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne . . .
  Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.]

  Horace

  Laughing, Age, Gone

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• Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

  Horace

  Fate, Gains, Granted

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• Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest with them by the way. And Thou art near to those that have not known Thee; open their eyes that they may see Thee--see Thee weeping over them, and saying, "Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life"--see Thee hanging on the cross and saying, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"--see Thee as Thou wilt come again in Thy glory to judge them at the last. Amen.

  George Eliot

  Art, Prayer, Father

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.26, George Eliot

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• Sarah, I want to ask thee a solemn question. Did thee ever one single time have thy Bank book balance and thy own check book balance agree exactly? Do not tell, but I never did. Hannah Whitall Smith, Sarah, I want to ask thee a solemn question. Did thee ever one single time have thy Bank book balance and thy own check book balance agree exactly? Do not tell, but I never did.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Book, Balance, Want

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1950). “Philadelphia Quaker: the letters of Hannah Whitall Smith”

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• Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Stars, Aunt, Trying

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1949). “A religious rebel: the letters of "H. W. S." (Mrs. Pearsall Smith)”

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• How beautiful is modesty! It winneth upon all beholders; but a word or a glance may destroy the pure love that should have been for thee.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Beautiful, Should Have, May

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1860). “Tupper's Complete Poetical Works: Containing "Proverbial Philosophy," "A Thousand Lines," "Hactenus," "Geraldine," and "Miscellaneous Poems"”, p.105

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• Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Mean, Feet, Answers

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• Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild
  Mingled in harmony on Nature's face,
  Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot
  Fail not with weariness, for on their tops
  The beauty and the majesty of earth,
  Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget
  The steep and toilsome way.

  William C. Bryant

  Feet, Lovely, Mountain

  William Cullen Bryant, “Monument Mountain”

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• Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Enemy, Harm, Can Do

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• Oh, no! my heart can never be
  Again in lightest hopes the same;
  The love that lingers there for thee
  Hath more of ashes than of flame.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, Flames, Ashes

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• Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mortals, Universe

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.79, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Lord God, I thank Thee that Thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have neither house nor land nor money, to leave behind me. Thou hast given me wife and children, whom I now restore to Thee. Lord, nourish, teach, and preserve them as Thou hast me.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Men, Land

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• What if thou be saint or sinner,
  Crooked gray-beard, straight beginner,--
  Empty paunch, or jolly dinner,
  When Death thee shall call.
  All like are rich or richer,
  King with crown, and cross-legged stitcher,
  When the grave hides all.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Death, Kings, What If

  RICHARD WATSON GILDER (1885). “LYRICS AND OTHER POEMS,”

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• Whatever hath been written shall remain,
  Nor be erased nor written o'er again;
  The unwritten only still belongs to thee:
  Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Authorship, Pondering, Wells

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.917, Delphi Classics

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• Let nothing disturb thee,
  Nothing affright thee;
  All things are passing;
  God never changeth;
  Patient endurance
  Attaineth to all things;
  Who God possesseth
  In nothing is wanting;
  Alone God sufficeth.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Patience, Endurance, Patient

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.694, Library of America

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• Hair is the most delicate and lasting of our materials, and survives us, like love. It is so light, so gentle; so escaping from the idea of death, that, with a lock of hair belonging to a child or friend, we may almost look up to heaven and compare notes with the angelic nature,--may almost say, "I have a piece of thee here not unworthy of thy being now.

  Leigh Hunt

  Children, Escaping, Like Love

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.145

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• Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright
  With joy the spirit moves and burns;
  So up to thee! O Fount of Light!
  Our light returns.

  John Sterling

  Moving, Light, Joy

  John Sterling (1842). “The Poetical Works of John Sterling”, p.127

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• Sacred interpreter of human thought,
  How few respect or use thee as they ought!
  But all shall give account of every wrong,
  Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue;
  Who prostitute it in the cause of vice,
  Or sell their glory at a market-price!

  William Cowper

  Giving, Vices, Use

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.40

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• Go, little Book! From this my solitude
  I cast thee on the Waters,--go thy ways:
  And if, as I believe, thy vein be good,
  The World will find thee after many days.
  Be it with thee according to thy worth:
  Go, little Book; in faith I send thee forth.

  Robert Southey

  Believe, Book, Water

  Robert Southey (1847). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.765

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• O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.

  Henry Fielding

  Art, Powerful, Eye

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1596, Delphi Classics

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