Thy Quotes

Redeem thy misspent time that's past, And live this day as if thy last.

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

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning.

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

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

Into thy hands, O Lord. Into thy hands.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

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

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

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.

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need: if thou sorrow, he will weep; if you wake, he cannot sleep; thus of every grief in heart he with thee doth bear a part.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.