W Quotes
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“When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began.”
“When thou attended gloriously from heaven , Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy summoning archangels to proclaim Thy dread tribunal.”
Source: The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...
“When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee And showed thee all the qualities o' th' isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.”
Source: Four Late Plays
“When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.”
Source: Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author
“When thou diest, thy soul will be tormented alone; that will be a hell for it, but at the day of judgment they body will join thy soul, and then thou wilt have twin hells, thy soul sweating drops of blood, and thy body suffused with agony. In fire exactly like that which we have on earth thy body will lie, asbestos-like, forever unconsumed, all they veins roads for the feet of pain to travel on, every nerve a string on which the devil shall forever play his diabolical tune of 'Hell's Unutterable Lament'.”
“When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.”
“When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.”
Source: The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum
“When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly.”
Source: Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms
“When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.”
“When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.”
“When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.”
“When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!”
Source: Blake: The Complete Poems
“When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man.”
“When thou sigh'st, thou sigh'st not wind,
But sigh'st my soul away;
When thou weep'st, unkindly kind,
My life's blood doth decay.
It cannot be
That thou lov'st me, as thou say'st,
If in thine my life thou waste,”
“When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.”
Source: The works ¬of ¬J. ¬Behmen, ¬the ¬teutonic ¬theosopher
“When thought and action are combined, the results are powerful-among the most powerful forces on earth. The combination of successful communication-the sharing of thoughts-and physical action can, literally, move mountains.”
Source: Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't
“When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.”
Source: Midnight's Children
“When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations?”
“When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.”
Source: What Is God?
“When thought stops, a doorway opens into dimensions that are pure and unassociated. They're nonbinding realities. They're non-samskaric, which simply means that they're beautiful; they're ecstatic.”
“When thoughts are reduced, power of the mind and its subtlety increases, tunes with the Universe. Then you can see the realms beyond the common understanding. When the mind is pure and quiet it becomes one with the universal mind. That mind is like a mirror. The secrets of the Universe will be revealed there.”
“When thoughts arise, as soon as you sense them heading on the road of desire, bring them right back onto the road of reason. Once they arise, notice them, once you notice them, you can change them. This is the key to turning calamity into fortune, rising from death and returning to life.”
“When thoughts arise, recognize them clearly as your teacher.”
“When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.”
“When thoughts come, you can invite them in but don't serve them tea.”
“When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.”
“When thoughts tell you it’s too late, dismiss them. You haven’t dreamed your best dream. You haven’t run your best race.”
“When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together.”
“When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.”
“When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.”
“When three liberals get together they form a new party; that is their idea of individualism. They never join a bowling club without introducing as part of the 'agenda' an 'amendment of the statutes.”
“When three persons are together, then no two of them should hold secret counsel excluding the third person”
“When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects”
“When thrown in the pit, a prayerful woman always finds a way out, because God comes to her rescue.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“When thrown into the pit, a prayerful woman always finds a way out because God comes to her rescue.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“When thunderstorms roll in, you make a choice to either succumb with tears to the gloomy downpour, or smile and look for rainbows.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.”
“When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.”
“When Tibetan lamas die they stay in a realization of clear light nature of the mind for several days or weeks.”
“When Tiger was 6 months old, he would sit in our garage, watching me hit balls into a net. He had been assimilating his golf swing. When he got out of the high chair, he had a golf swing.”
“When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.”
“When Tim asked me to do Frankenweenie, he had his original sketches from before he did the short, of what Sparky looked like, and he drew Victor and some of the other crucial people. The remarkable thing about working with Tim is that, once he's read a script, he sketches out everybody else.”
“When time allows you to take part in something, no matter how small it is, give it your best shot and excel at it.”
Source: The Precious Gift of Time: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
“When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.”
“When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.”
“When time bends
There, placed adjacent to each other,
Stood everything and nothing,
There was everywhere and nowhere together,
And even forever and never existed as one thing,
And fate asked me to choose one combination,
Whatever I chose, I chose and didn't choose as well,
Because with everything there was nothing too as its destination,
With everywhere there was nowhere, similar to heaven and hell,
And forever was accompanied by never,
So what to choose I did not know,
Although it was not an experience newer,
But it was a new realization, about which something all your life you know,
It was then I said “everything and nothing!”
And fate laughed and said, “very wisely chosen!
Because now with everything I shall offer you everything,
Everything, everywhere, forever, life, joy, beauty and a height where your heart has never risen,
But everything is followed by nothing, nowhere, never, sorrow,
All that you may seek not so often,
But at least you will experience darkness after having experienced the brightest glow,
Because without knowing nine one can never arrive at ten,
So, well chosen because had you chosen forever,
It might have been that darkness visited you first,
And then it would have been so forever,
And if you had chosen everywhere it too may have been an unpleasant burst!”
I wondered what it meant,
But as I grew old I realised in everything lies true eternity,
So this wish still pays my every rent,
For all my desires and wishes of joy and beauty,
Because everything is never ending,
By the time it shall reach its end and become nothing,
I shall be long gone, a summer flower already fading,
Then it does not matter whether it is something, everything or nothing,
And every life should be about everything,
Only then we get to experience joy and beauty that never ends,
To be our companions beyond that unseen world of that malign feeling,
Where everything becomes nothing, everywhere becomes nowhere, and forever becomes never, where time bends,
So choose everything whenever life offers you a chance,
Because one day it will surely end,
So when you get the chance, perform your dance,
Because there shall be enough time later, to repair and mend,
All nothings, all nevers, all nowheres and all ends,
Therefore, the day sun shines, assume it shines just for you,
Because when time finally bends,
It bends for all of us, not just for me, but you too!”
Source: They Loved in 2075!
“When time changes, the law also changes to suit the new rulers. Often the same people who were being accused of heinous crimes like treason according to the then laws, become the martyrs and messiahs when the laws are changed.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“When Time got rid of my column, I thought it was all over. It was really sad. And then, I just started pushing it to lots of places. And I thought someone would run my column, I thought it was popular, and no one wanted it.”
“When time is flown, how it fled
It is better neither to ask nor tell,
Leave the dead moments to bury their dead.”
“When time is old ⟨and⟩ hath forgot itself,
When water drops have worn the stones of Troy
And blind oblivion swallowed cities up,
And mighty states characterless are grated
To dusty nothing,”
Source: Troilus and Cressida