Thee Quotes - Page 16

• When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Marriage, Thinking, Giving

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1857). “Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author”, p.105

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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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• If so men's memories not a monument be,
  None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone,
  Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown.
  Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee?

  John Vance Cheney

  Memories, Lying, Heart

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• People think they're in control, but they ain't. The truth is, that which must befall thee must befall thee. And that which must pass thee by must pass thee by.

  Denver Moore

  Thinking, People, Truth Is

  Ron Hall, Denver Moore (2008). “Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together”, p.169, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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• Ah, passing few are they who speak,
  Wild, stormy month! in praise of thee;
  Yet though thy winds are loud and bleak,
  Thou art a welcome month to me.
  For thou, to northern lands, again
  The glad and glorious sun dost bring,
  And thou hast joined the gentle train
  And wear'st the gentle name of Spring.

  William C. Bryant

  Art, Spring, Wind

  William Cullen Bryant, “March”

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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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• Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Confidence, Fearless, Knows

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1867). “Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon”, p.231

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• I would give worlds, could I believe
  One-half that is profess'd me;
  Affection! could I think it Thee,
  When Flattery has caress'd me.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1829). “The Venetian bracelet: the lost pleiad ; a history of the lyre, and other poems”, p.286

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• The dream on the pillow,
  That flits with the day,
  The leaf of the willow
  A breath wears away;
  The dust on the blossom,
  The spray on the sea;
  Ay,--ask thine own bosom--
  Are emblems of thee.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Dream, Dust, Sea

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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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• O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!

  Charles Lamb

  Money, Liberty, Pockets

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon TALFOURD (1850). “Final Memorials of Charles Lamb; consisting chiefly of his Letters not before published, with sketches of some of his companions. By T. N. Talfourd”, p.134

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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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• I count my time by times that I meet thee;
  These are my yesterdays, my morrows, noons,
  And nights, these are my old moons and my new moons.
  Slow fly the hours, fast the hours flee,
  If thou art far from or art near to me:
  If thou art far, the bird's tunes are no tunes;
  If thou art near, the wintry days are Junes.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Time, Art, Moon

  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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• O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life.
  [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophy, Men, Cities

  "Tusculan Disputations", ook V. 2. 5, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 596-97,

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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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• Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!

  Boethius

  God, Eye, Light

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• Take the good the gods provide thee.

  John Dryden

  God Provides, Goods

  John Dryden, “Alexander's Feast; Or, The Power Of Music”

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• Cloath thee in war, arme thee in peace.

  George Herbert

  War

  George Herbert (1959). “The works of George Herbert”

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