Thy Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

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

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

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.

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

Without saying word to anybody, cover thy face.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year.

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.