T Quotes
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“Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.”
Source: A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published
“Tis the good reader that makes the good book.”
“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.”
Source: Society and solitude
“Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.”
Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840
“Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.”
“Tis the ignorant who boast.”
“Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“Tis the mind must guide the hand.”
Source: Mother Stories
“Tis the mind that makes the body rich.”
Source: The Taming of the Shrew
“Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this (from which our sight we have) Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.”
Source: Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy
“Tis the motive exalts the action; 'Tis the doing, and not the deed.”
“Tis the night - the night
Of the grave's delight,
And the warlocks are at their play;
Ye think that without
The wild winds shout,
But no, it is they - it is they.”
Source: Halloween: A Romaunt
“Tis the night before Christmas
And the moon is sitting high
The kids are in bed,
Kissed and snuggled in tight
The gifts are all wrapped
There is love in the air
It only comes once
So it is handled with care
The curtains are drawn
The cookies are bit
It’s time to blow out
All those candles we’ve lit
The kids will soon wake
With laughter in their hearts
We have a big day ahead
And early it would start
Laughter’s and squeals
Jumps on the bed
Screaming, “Get up”!
“Get up!” as they fled
Wrappings and ribbons
Thrown everywhere
“Oh, I love you Mom and Dad!”
Neither did spare
Family arrives - Carolers sing
Stories are told
Of childhood memories
This is true love; true love is in the air
And it only comes once
So it is handled with care
Now the gifts have been opened
And the food is all gone
The songs are all sung
And the guests have gone home
It is time to get back
To all the normal things
It is time to put away
All that the holidays bring
You'll go to your office
She'll go to her room
He'll reach for his game
I guess I'll grab the broom
Christmas had come
And Christmas had went
It only comes once a year
But it is always time well spent”
“Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.”
Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux
“Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet.”
“Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull”
Source: DON JUAN
“Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.”
Source: Essays (Annotated Edition)
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
Source: The life, letters and writings of Charles Lamb Volume 3
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.”
“Tis the side we’re on.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“Tis the strumpet's plague
To beguile many, and be beguiled by one.”
“Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.”
Source: The Essays of Montaigne
“Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.”
Source: The Tragedy of King Lear
“Tis the unexpected that makes life interesting.”
Source: I Dream of Dragons
“Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.”
“Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath,
From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,
From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud-
Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?”
“Tis the world (that is, Sin and the Devil) crieth out continuously, come back O sinner! But does not the Apostle Paul give this command, "...be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
“Tis therefore on my ascendant Star, and not on the Count de Gabalis, that the Virtuosi ought to lay the Blame, if I love rather to divulge their Secrets, than to practise them. If the Stars don't do their Duty, the Count is not the Cause of it; and if I have not a Soul great enough to attempt the Mastery of Nature, to overturn the Elements, to maintain Supream Intelligences, to command the Daemons, to beget Giants, to crete new Worlds, to speak to God on his tremendous Throne, and to oblige the Cherubim who guards the terrestrial Paradise to let me take a Turn or two in those delicious Walks; 'tis myself alone that is to be blam'd or pity'd; you must not, for that, insult the Memory of that rare Man, and say he came by his Death for having inform'd me of these Things.”
Source: Le Comte de Gabalis, ou Entretiens sur les Sciences Secretes, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
“Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.”
“Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own,
Believe no evil, till the evil's done.
[Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres.
Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]”
“Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.”
“Tis to create, and in creating live a being more intense, that we endow with form our fancy, gaining as we give the life we image, even as I do now.”
“Tis to create, and in creating live
A being more intense, that we endow
With form our fancy, gaining as we give
The life we image, even as I do now.
What am I? Nothing: but not so art thou,
Soul of my thought! with whom I traverse earth,
Invisible but gazing, as I glow
Mix'd with thy spirit, blended with thy birth,
And feeling still with thee in my crush'd feelings' dearth.”
Source: Selected poems
“Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.”
“Tis torture and not mercy. Heaven is here,
Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog
And little mouse, every unworthy thing,
Live here in heaven and may look on her,
But Romeo may not. More validity,
More honorable state, more courtship lives
In carrion flies than Romeo. They may seize
On the white wonder of dear Juliet’s hand
And steal immortal blessing from her lips,
Who even in pure and vestal modesty,
Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.
But Romeo may not. He is banishèd.
Flies may do this, but I from this must fly.
They are free men, but I am banishèd.
And sayst thou yet that exile is not death?
Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife,
No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean,
But “banishèd” to kill me?—“Banishèd”!
O Friar, the damnèd use that word in hell.
Howling attends it. How hast thou the heart,
Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,
A sin-absolver, and my friend professed,
To mangle me with that word “banishèd”?”
“Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.”
Source: Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin
“tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.”
Source: Fanny
“Tis true, 'tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.”
“Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together.”
Source: Love Poems
“Tis true, my form is something odd
but blaming me, is blaming God,
Could I create myself anew
I would not fail in pleasing you.”
“Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.”
Source: The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Miscellaneous Prose
“Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations
“Tis Vanth's cage. You can just move it out of the way." "I already have," he grumbles. "With my shin.”
“Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.”
Source: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
“Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.”
“Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.”
“Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.”
Source: The Conduct of Life
“Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?”
Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy
“Tis well to be merry and wise,
'Tis well to be honest and true;
It is best to be off with the old love,
Before you are on with the new.”