Thee Quotes - Page 8

• Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, May, Action

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.144, Penguin

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• Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.

  Abraham Cowley

  Morning, Wine, Self

  Abraham Cowley (1772). “Select works of mr. A. Cowley [ed. by R. Hurd].”, p.148

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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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• O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!

  Dante Alighieri

  Faithful, Littles, Failing

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Purgatorio, Song III, 8, 1321.

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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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• How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy!

  Tibullus

  Night, Long, Enjoy

  Tibullus, Gerard Van der Gucht (1720). “The Works of Tibullus: Containing His Four Books of Love Elegies”, p.199

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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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• I sang 'A Closer Walk with Thee' along with blues singer Brownie McGhee, ... Then there was a show where Carol Houston, an actress on 'Matlock' sang 'It Is Well With My Soul' accompanied by a choir. Boy, that was powerful.

  Andy Griffith

  Powerful, Boys, Soul

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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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• The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.

  Bear Bryant

  Children, Kissing, Men

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• My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sweet, Grief, Heart

  "Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 1796-1812" edited by Henry Foljambe Hall, 1901.

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• We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  New Year, Holiday, Today

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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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• All things do go a-courting,
  In earth, or sea, or air,
  God hath made nothing single
  But thee in His world so fair.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Air, Sea

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.695, Harvard University Press

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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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• Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me. Within Thy wounds hide me. Permit me not to be separated from Thee. From the wicked foe defend me. At the hour of my death call me. And bid me come to Thee. That with Thy saints I may praise Thee For ever and ever. Amen.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Jesus, Passion, Blood

  Saint Ignatius (of Loyola) (1951). “The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: A New Translation Based on Studies in the Language of the Autograph”

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• And there I saw in the night the vision of a man....coming as it were from Ireland, with countless letters. And he gave me one of them, and I read the opening words of the letter, which were, The voice of the Irish...and as I read the beginning of the letter I thought that at the same moment I heard their voice - they were those beside the Wood of Voclut, which is near the Western Sea - and thus did they cry out as with one mouth: We ask thee, boy, come and walk among us once more.

  Saint Patrick

  Faith, Inspiration, Boys

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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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