Thee Quotes - Page 9

• Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee.

  James Edmeston

  Helping, Guides

  'Sacred Lyrics' (1821) 'Lead Us, Heavenly Father'

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• America! America! God shed His grace on thee.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  4th Of July, America, Grace

  "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)

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• For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.

  Yip Harburg

  Cutting, Thankfulness, Missionary

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• If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.

  William Shakespeare

  Echoes, Doctors, Land

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers (1859). “The Works of William Shakespeare, Complete: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens”, p.280

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• Without [these] lights and [this] little throne our Lord cannot come out of His tabernacle. We give them to Him, and we say to Him: 'Thou are on a beautiful throne. It is we that have erected it for Thee. It is we that have opened the door of Thy prison and rent the cloud that hid Thee, O Sun of Love. Dart Thy rays now on every heart'

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Beautiful, Heart, Clouds

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• O Jesus, here present in the Holy Eucharist, Thy Heart is all aglow with love for me! Thou dost call me, Thou dost urge me to come to Thee.

  Ildefonsus

  Jesus, Heart, Holy Eucharist

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• O Eternal Father, we commend to Thy protection and care the members of the Marine Corps. Guide and direct them in the defense of our country and in the maintenance of justice among nations. Protect them in the hour of danger. Grant that wherever they serve they may be loyal to their high traditions and that at all times they may put their trust in Thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

  Henry Knox Sherrill

  Country, Jesus, Father

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• Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Dust, Feet, Tree

  Henry Van Dyke (2006). “Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land: Impressio”, p.103, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All Thy works with joy surround Thee, God of glory, Lord of Love; Stars and angels sing around Thee, Center of unbroken praise. Field and forest, vale and mountain, Flowery meadow, flashing sea, Chanting bird and flowing fountain, Call us to rejoice in Thee.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Stars, Angel, Sea

  Henry Van Dyke, “Hymn Of Joy”

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• Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

  Philip Massinger

  Art, Sight, Blind

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• 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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• 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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• From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.

  Bayard Taylor

  Wind, Fire, Desire

  Bayard Taylor (1857). “Poems of the Orient”, p.86

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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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• My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.

  David

  Thanksgiving, Religious, Heart

  King David of Israel, “Psalm 57: I Will Cry Unto God Most High”

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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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