Thou Quotes

Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

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

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Thou strange piece of wild nature!

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.

Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Resolve and thou art free.