T Quotes
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“Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine,
Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine.
Better be born with taste to little rent
Than the dull monarch of a continent;
Without this bounty which the gods bestow,
Can Fortune make one favorite happy?
No.”
Source: The Poems of Armstrong and Johnson
“Tis destiny unshunnable, like death.
Even then this forkèd plague is fated to us
When we do quicken.”
Source: Othello
“Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.”
“Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.”
“Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.”
“Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.”
“Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.”
“Tis easiest dealing with the firmest mind--
More just when it resists, and, when it yields, more kind.”
Source: The Tales and Miscellaneous Poems
“Tis easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue-- 'Tis the natural way of living.”
Source: Poetical works
“Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.”
“Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)
“Tis emblematic, the rose of youth and health soon fades when watered by the tear of affliction.”
Source: Charlotte Temple
“Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.”
“Tis ever thus when favours are denied;
All had been granted but the thing we beg:
And still some great unlikely substitute--
Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good--
Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon.”
Source: A series of plays in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind: each passion being the subject of a tragedy and a comedy
“Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base;
Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence,
Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh
When morning shines upon it.”
Source: Plays on the Passions
“Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the existence of one object from another, unless they be connected together, either mediately or immediately... Here is a billiard ball lying on the table, and another ball moving toward it with rapidity. They strike; and the ball which was formerly at rest now acquires a motion. This is as perfect an instance of the relation of cause and effect as any which we know, either by sensation or reflection.”
“Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.”
Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.”
“Tis feeling all;
Name is but sound and smoke
Shrouding the glow of heaven.”
Source: Faust, First Part
“Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“Tis from the resemblance of the external actions of animals to those we ourselves perform, that we judge their internal likewise to resemble ours; and the same principle of reasoning, carry'd one step further, will make us conclude that since our internal actions resemble each other, the causes, from which they are deriv'd, must also be resembling. When any hypothesis, therefore, is advanc'd to explain a mental operation, which is common to men and beasts, we must apply the same hypothesis to both.”
Source: A Treatise of Human Nature
“Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures--but I know not how it is, but I am never so perfectly conscious of the existence of a soul within me, as when I am entangled in them.”
Source: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts
“Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief, Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.”
Source: Cymbeline: Second Series
“Tis good to laugh. Yer gotta laugh and laugh out loud,” said the leprechaun. “You can cry if you want to but laughin’s better.”
Source: Happy Jack
“Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.”
Source: Discourses concerning Government ... Published by I. Littlebury from an original manuscript of the author
“Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control.”
“Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example.”
Source: Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals
“Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend
Him, as He is, is labour without end.”
Source: The Hesperides & Noble Numbers
“tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.”
“Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease”
Source: The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century
“Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.”
“Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.”
Source: In Memoriam
“Tis human actions paint the chart of time.”
“Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.”
“Tis I whom children love the best; / My wealth is all for them; / For them is set each glossy cup / Upon each sturdy stem.”
Source: A Treasury of Flower Fairies
“Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.”
“Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.”
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Plays
“Tis immortality to die aspiring.”
Source: The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron
“Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.”
Source: Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life
“Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but death and taxes.”
“Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules contrived to govern them, without considering with like Attention, all the Passions, Appetites, Affections in Nature from which they flow. An intimate Knowledge therefore of the intellectual and moral World is the sole foundation on which a stable structure of Knowledge can be erected.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Diary, with passages from an autobiography. Notes of debates in the Continental Congress, in 1775 and 1776. Autobiography
“Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Tis in ourselves that we are thus
or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which
our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant
nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up
thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or
distract it with many, either to have it sterile
with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the
power and corrigible authority of this lies in our
wills. If the balance of our lives had not one
scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the
blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us
to most preposterous conclusions: but we have
reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal
stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that
you call love to be a sect or scion.”
Source: Othello
“Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.”
“Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.”
Source: Othello
“Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus.”
“Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.”
Source: Festus: a poem