T Quotes
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“They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather than have incurred.”
“They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.”
“They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.”
“They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.”
Source: Discourses on various subjects relative to the being and attributes of God, and his works in creation, providence, and grace
“They who pray with faith have fervour and fervour is the fire of prayer. This mysterious fire has the power of consuming all our faults and imperfections, and of giving to our actions, vitality, beauty and merit.”
“They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.”
“They who prosper take on airs of vanity.”
Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus
“They who quarrel with others, instead of quarrelling with their own hearts, waste their lives.”
“They who reach down into the depths of life where, in the stillness, the voice of God is heard, have the stabilizing power which carries them poised and serene through the hurricane of difficulties.”
“They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.”
“They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page of history, every fact in human experience. It has taken the whole power of the civil and canon law to hold woman in the subordinate position which it is said she willingly accepts.”
Source: History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900
“They who secure eternal life are doers of the word as well as hearers”
“They who see only what they wish to see in those around them are very fortunate.”
Source: Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884
“They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore.”
Source: Songs from the Southern Seas: And Other Poems
“They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“They who seek Christ are already being sought of him.”
“They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion.”
“They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.”
Source: Thoughts
“They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost.”
“They who shared none of my defeats should take no pride in celebrating my successes.”
“They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.”
“They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest ... The dead do not suffer.”
Source: Popular edition of col. Ingersoll's lectures. (Freethought publ. co.'s ed.).
“They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.”
Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings
“They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due”
Source: Sermons of Jonathan Edwards
“They who wander widest lift No more of beauties' jealous veils, Than they who from their doorways see The miracle of flowers and trees.”
“They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.”
“They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
—written for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its Reply to the Governor, 11 November 1755”
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin Volume 2
“They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.”
“They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.”
Source: The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson
“They whooped our tail last time we was here. So it's time for a little revenge, and show that Florida football is coming back.”
“They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions fortuitous, destroy the value of their friendship, obstruct the efficacy of their virtues, and set them below the meanest of those who persist in their resolutions, execute what they design, and perform what they have promised.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Shakespeare. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait].
“They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.”
Source: The Landmark Thucydides
“They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.”
“They will also tell you how far along we are along the depletion curve; the optimists among them will even claim that there is nothing to worry about, because we have two or three decades of production left at the current level. It is to be expected that we will run out of fossil fuels before we run out of optimists, who are, along with fools and madmen, a renewable resource.”
“They will always remember your mistakes, but will always forget their own, as if they are flawless and you are full of faults.”
“They will always tell you that you can't do what you want to do, but you can do what you want to do. You just have to believe in yourself. The system is to bring you down, but you can rise up.”
“They will ask me when I first knew I was in love with you. I will sign and say I don't know. It happened in fragments, piece by piece, separate moments over the years. Moments - that's how I remember it. They will be surprised when I say you are the only man I have ever loved.”
Source: A Broken People's Playlist
“They will attach you in the morning and they will come booming - skirmishers three deep. You will have to fight like the devil until supports arrive.”
“They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty.”
“They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copies; books that are collectible will continue to be collected; people with lots of bookshelves will keep stocking them; and anyone who likes to make notes in books will keep buying books with margins to fill.”
“They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, gray members of a congregation of nightmare; hark! his long wavering howl . . . an aria of fear made audible. The wolfsong is the sound of the rending you will suffer, in itself a murdering.”
Source: Burning your boats: the collected short stories
“They will be the architects of my fate, I think to myself, despite what Sybil said about my being the author of my own destiny.”
Source: The White Oak
“They will become Godly when they will have God in their hearts.”
“They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.”
Source: Shirley and The Professor
“They will call you immoral if you dare to describe their immorality”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?”
Source: The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling
“They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.”
“They will come, not to paint the bay and the sea and the boots and the moors, but the warmth of the sun and the colour of the wind. A whole new concept. Such stimulation. Such vitality.”