T Quotes
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“Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.”
“Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.”
Source: The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works
“Thou knowest, winter tames man, woman, and beast.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English
“Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.”
“Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.”
“Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.”
“Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!”
“Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.”
Source: Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq
“Thou lovest like an infinite God when Thou lovest; Thou movest heaven and earth to save Thy loved ones. Thou becomest man, a babe, the vilest of men, covered with reproaches, dying with infamy and under the pangs of the cross; all this is not too much for an infinite love.”
Source: Spiritual Progress
“Thou lump of foul deformity!”
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard III
“Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.”
“Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund”
Source: Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure
“Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.”
“Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.”
“Thou mayest choose an helpmeet," said the King to me.
An helpmeet? What the great googly-moogly was that?”
Source: Got Luck
“Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“Thou mayest reach Heaven only by the mercy of the fallen.”
Source: Tess of the Road
“Thou mayest rule over sin,’ Lee. That’s it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lived by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles—only the winners are remembered. Surely most men are destroyed, but there are others who like pillars of fire guide frightened men through the darkness. ‘Thou mayest, Thou Mayest!’ What glory! It is true that we are weak and sick and quarrelsome, but if that is all we ever were, we would, millenniums ago, have disappeared from the face of the earth. A few remnants of fossilized jawbone, some broken teeth in strata of limestone, would be the only mark man would have left of his existence in the world. But the choice, Lee, the choice of winning!”
Source: East of Eden
“Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles — only the winners are remembered.”
“Thou mayest rule over sin.”
Source: The Portable Steinbeck
“Thou Moon! Sun of the Night, Sister mystic of the Day; Look down, pause in thy flight! Calm me with thy aural ray, Enchanting souls to silver sleep. Look down from out thy airy keep, My fevered senses hypnotize; Shut out the World, whereto Mind flies-- Ambitious Mind, with travail sore; Its fibre rest, its calm restore.”
Source: Cloudrifts at Twilight
“Thou most lying slave,
Whom stripes may move, not kindness!”
Source: The Tempest
“Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.”
“Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.”
“Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.”
Source: Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]
“Thou must gather thine own sunshine.”
“Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound...
{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare}”
“Thou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life.”
“Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What is in me dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the heighth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.”
Source: Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index
“Thou ominous and fearful owl of death.”
Source: Henry VI, Part One
“Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.”
“Thou oughtest to know, since thou livest near the gods.
[Lat., Scire, deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet.]”
“Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself
Upon thy wicked dam”
Source: The Tempest
“Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky!
Yea! every thing that is and will be free!
Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye be,
With what deep worship I have still adored
The spirit of divinest Liberty.”
“Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them.”
Source: Moby Dick: Top 100 Classic Novels
“Thou See Through Thy Heart,
For A Mystic Is Not His Mind But His Heart,
As Thou See Through Thy Heart, People Consider Thyself Mad Without Knowing Within Thy Heart Stationed Is Beloved.”
“Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.”
“Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.”
“Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.”
“Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.”
“Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.”
Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.”
“Thou shall love the Lord with thy whole heart, soul, and mind. This is the commandment of the Great God, and he cannot command the impossible. Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice by an intense inner life. There is no limit because God is love, love is God, God's love is infinite. But part is to love and to give until it hurts. That's why it is not how much you do, but how much love you put into the action.”
“Thou shall not employ a web developer who has a bad website”
From: Stefan G. Bucher. “Graphic Design Rules.”
Source: Graphic Design Rules: 365 Essential Design Dos and Don'ts
“Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not commit adultery. Don't eat pork. I'm sorry, what was that last one?? Don't eat pork. God has spoken. Is that the word of God or is that pigs trying to outsmart everybody?”
“Thou shall not steal, even by majority vote.”
“Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.”
Source: Faust: Top Classic of German
“Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.”
Source: The Tempest (Shakespeare Library Classic)
“Thou shalt believe in Milton, Dryden, Pope;
Thou shalt not set up Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey;
Because the first is crazed beyond all hope,
The second drunk, the third so quaint and mouthy.”
Source: DON JUAN