God deceiveth thee not. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

One kindly deed may turn
The fountain of thy soul
To love's sweet day-star,
That shall over thee burn
Long as its currents roll. [ Holmes ]

Go where glory waits thee;
But while fame elates thee,
Oh! still remember me. [ Moore ]

Fear not; for I am with thee. [ Bible ]

Let thy vices die before thee. [ Franklin ]

Follow what is worthy of thee. [ Motto ]

I'll speak to thee in silence. [ William Shakespeare ]

May earth lie light upon thee.

With this kiss take my blessing
God protect thee! [ William Shakespeare ]

O wild and wondrous midnight.
There is a might in thee
To make the charmed body
Almost like spirit be,
And give it some faint glimpses
Of immortality! [ Lowell ]

Ever absent, ever near;
Still I see thee, still I hear;
Yet I cannot reach thee, dear! [ Francis Kazinczy ]

I'll make thee famous by my pen
And glorious by my sword. [ Marquis of Montrose ]

Fare thee well! and if forever.
Still forever, fare thee well. [ Byron ]

Adversity, sage useful guest,
Severe instructor, but the best.
It is from thee alone we know
Justly to value things below. [ Somerville ]

I do not love thee, Doctor Fell,
The reason why, I cannot tell;
But this alone I know full well
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell. [ Tom Brown ]

Eternity forbids thee to forget. [ Byron ]

The rolling year is full of Thee. [ Thomson ]

Love me little, love me long,
Is the burden of my song;
Love that is too hot and strong
Burneth soon to waste;
Still I would not have thee cold,
Not too backward or too bold;
Love that lasteth till 'tis old
Fadeth not in haste. [ Old Ballad ]

Soon for me the light of day
Shall forever pass away;
Then from sin and sorrow free,
Take me, Lord, to dwell with Thee. [ Doane ]

Come, lay thy head upon my breast,
And I will kiss thee unto rest. [ Byron ]

Every one that flatters thee,
Is no friend in misery;
Words are easy, like the wind,
Faithful friends are hard to find. [ Shakespeare ]

Up, then, with speed, and work;
Fling ease and self away -
This is no time for thee to sleep -
Up, watch, and work, and pray! [ Horatius Bonar ]

As the husband is, the wife is:
Thou art mated with a clown,
And the grossness of his nature
Will have weight to drag thee down. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Be as just and gracious unto me.
As I am confident and kind to thee. [ William Shakespeare ]

Oh, no! My heart can never be
Again in lightest hopes the same;
The love that lingers there for thee
Hath more of ashes than of flame. [ Miss Landon ]

Hail mildly, pleasing solitude.
Companion of the wise and good,
But from whose holy, piercing eye,
The herds of fools and villains fly;
Oh! how I love with thee to walk,
And listen to thy whispered talk,
Which innocence and truth imparts,
And meets the most obdurate hearts. [ Thomson ]

Help thyself and God will help thee. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Press on! a better fate awaits thee. [ Victor Hugo ]

What would not I give to wander
Where my old companions dwell?
Absence makes the heart grow fonder:
Isle of Beauty, fare thee well! [ T. H. Bayly, Isle of Beauty ]

Today for thee, and tomorrow for me. [ Cervantes ]

Do the duty which lies nearest thee. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

I would not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honour more. [ Lovelace ]

Now, infidel, I have thee on the hip. [ William Shakespeare ]

He whom nature thus bereaves,
Is ever fancy's favourite child;
For thee enchanted dreams she weaves
Of changeful beauty, bright and wild. [ Mrs. Osgood ]

Heaven
Is as the Book of God before thee set,
Wherein to read His wondrous works. [ Milton ]

Love thyself, and many will hate thee. [ Anon ]

Haste thee. Nymph, and bring with thee
Jest and youthful jollity.
Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles.
Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles. [ Milton ]

With thee conversing I forget the way. [ Gay ]

Clothe thee in war, arm thee in peace. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Hath not thy heart within thee burned,
At evening's calm and holy hour? [ S. G. Bulfinch ]

What is excellent,
As God lives, is permanent;
Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain,
Heart's love will meet thee again. [ Emerson ]

Defer not till tomorrow to be wise,
Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise. [ William Congreve ]

Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

With thee conversing I forget all time. [ Milton ]

O death! the poor man's dearest friend,
The kindest and the best!
Welcome the hour, my aged limbs
Are laid with thee at rest! [ Burns ]

He that will be served must be patient. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Study thyself; what rank or what degree
The wise Creator hath ordained for thee. [ John Dryden ]

Let every minute be a full life to thee. [ Jean Paul ]

Fatal ambition! say what wondrous charms
Delude mankind to toil for thee in arms? [ Rowe ]

Let it content thee that thou art a man. [ Lessing ]

Deep in the frozen regions of the north,
A goddess violated brought thee forth,
Immortal liberty. [ Smollett ]

I would the gods had made thee poetical. [ William Shakespeare ]

Years have not seen, Time shall not see,
The hour that tears my soul from thee. [ Byron ]

I am misanthropos, and hate mankind,
For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog.
That I might love thee something. [ William Shakespeare ]

Where can I grasp thee, infinite Nature? [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The sepulchre,
Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,
Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws. [ William Shakespeare ]

To rock and river, plain and wood,
I cry, Ye are my kin. While I, O Earth!
Am but an atom of thee, and a breath,
Passing unseen and unrecorded, like
The tiny throb here in my temple's pulse. [ Philip J. Bailey ]

Oh, Love! no habitant of earth thou art -
An unseen seraph, we believe in thee. [ Byron ]

And if I love thee, what is that to thee? [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!
Blind among enemies, O worse than chains.
Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! [ Milton ]

I pray thee let me and my fellow have
A hair of the dog that bit us last night. [ John Heywood ]

Master, go on, and I will follow thee
To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty. [ William Shakespeare ]

Walk
Boldly and wisely in that light thou hast.
There is a Hand above will help thee on. [ Bailey ]

I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. [ William Shakespeare ]

Lose not thyself, nor give thy humors way;
God gave them to thee under lock and key. [ George Herbert ]

Wooing thee,
I found thee of more value
Than stamps in gold or sums in sealed bags;
And it is the very riches of thyself
That now I aim at. [ William Shakespeare ]

Misfortune, like a creditor severe.
But rises in demand for her delay;
She makes a scourge of past prosperity
To sting thee more and double thy distress. [ Young ]

O holy Night! from thee I learn to bear
What man has borne before!
Thou layest thy finger on the lips of Care,
And they complain no more. [ Longfellow ]

Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee! [ Boethius ]

That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain,
And follows but for form,
Will pack, when it begins to rain,
And leave thee in a storm. [ William Shakespeare ]

And I have loved thee. Ocean! and my joy
Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be
Borne, like thy bubbles, onward; from a boy
I wanton'd with thy breakers. [ Byron ]

Love not thyself, nor give thy humours way;
God gave them to thee under lock and key. [ George Herbert ]

Make clean thy conscience; hide thee there. [ Quarles ]

As well the noble savage of the field
Might tamely couple with the fearful ewe;
Tigers might engender with the timid deer;
Wild, muddy boars defile the cleanly ermine,
Or vultures sort with doves; as I with thee. [ Lee ]

Oh! I will curse thee til! thy frighted soul
Runs mad with horror. [ Lee ]

Show me a liar and I will show thee a thief. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! [ William Shakespeare ]

Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee
And cherished thine image for years;
Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee,
In secret, in silence, and tears. [ Mrs. David Porter ]

A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee. [ William Shakespeare ]

Brook! whose society the poet seeks,
Intent his wasted spirits to renew;
And whom the curious painter doth pursue
Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks.
And tracks thee dancing down thy waterbreaks. [ Wordsworth ]

I have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness,
Oaths of thy love, thy truth, thy constancy;
I have sworn thee fair. [ William Shakespeare ]

If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined,
The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind;
Or, ravished with the whistling of a name,
See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame! [ Pope ]

For thee, O now a silent soul, my brother,
Take at my hands this garland and farewell,
Thin is the leaf, and chill the wintry smell,
And chill the solemn earth, a fatal mother. [ Swinburne ]

Let each task present its petty good to thee. [ Robert Browning ]

There's not a wind but whispers of thy name,
And not a flower that grows beneath the moon,
But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale
Of thee, my love. [ Barry Cornwall ]

O Fortune, Fortune! all men call thee fickle. [ William Shakespeare ]

Let not the cooings of the world allure thee;
Which of her lovers ever found her true? [ Young ]

See what money can do: that can change
Men's manners; alter their conditions!
How tempestuous the slaves are without it!
O thou powerful metal! what authority
Is in thee! thou art the key to all mens
Mouths: with thee, a man may lock up the jaws
Of an informer; and without thee, he
Cannot open the lips of a lawyer. [ Richard Brome ]

Let thy alms go before, and keep heaven's gate
Open for thee, or both may come too late. [ George Herbert ]

Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war.
And thus hath so bestirr'd thee in thy sleep
That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow
Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream:
And in thy face strange motions have appear'd,
Such as we see when men restrain their breath
On some great sudden haste. [ William Shakespeare ]

Experience, next, to thee I owe,
Best guide; not following thee, I had remained
In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way.
And giv'st access, though secret she retire. [ Milton ]

Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee. [ Miss L. E. Landon ]

Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art.
For there thy habitation is the Heart -
The Heart which love of thee alone can bind;
And when thy sons to fetters are consigned -
To fetters and the damp vault's dayless gloom,
Their country conquers with their Martyrdom,
And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. [ Byron ]

The slender acacia would not shake
One long milk-bloom on the tree;
The white lake-blossom fell into the lake
As the pimpernel dozed on the lea;
But the rose was awake all night for your sake,
Knowing your promise to me;
The lilies and roses were all awake.
They sighed for the dawn and thee. [ Tennyson ]

Take not His name, who made thy mouth, in vain;
It gets thee nothing, and hath no excuse. [ George Herbert ]

Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor;
And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away. [ Cowper ]

Accept these grateful tears! for thee they flow
For thee, that ever felt another's woe! [ Homer ]

Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes.
But not too humbly, or she will despise
Thee and thy suit though told in moving tropes;
Disguise even tenderness, if thou art wise. [ Byron ]

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, - roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin - his control
Stops with the shore. [ Byron ]

May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name.
And glorify what else is damned to fame. [ Richard Savage ]

I'll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still. [ William Shakespeare ]

All Nature is but art unknown to thee;
All chance direction, which thou canst not see. [ Pope ]

A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich. [ Mrs. Browning ]

The charm of eloquence - the skill
To wake each secret string,
And from the bosom's chords at will
Life's mournful music bring;
The overmastering strength of mind, which sways
The haughty and the free,
Whose might earth's mightiest ones obey
This charm was given to thee. [ Mrs. Embury ]

Death has made His darkness beautiful with thee. [ Tennyson ]

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together;
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care;
Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather;
Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.
Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short;
Youth is nimble, age is lame;
Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold;
Youth is wild, and age is tame.
Age, I do abhor thee; youth I do adore thee. [ William Shakespeare ]

With equal foot (rich friend), impartial Fate
Knocks at the cottage and the palace gate;
Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares
And stretch thy hopes beyond thy destined years:
Night soon will seize, and you must quickly go
To storied ghosts and Pluto's house below. [ Horace ]

Be charitable before wealth maket thee covetous. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Gold! gold! in all ages the curse of mankind,
Thy fetters are forged for the soul and the mind.
The limbs may be free as the wings of a bird.
And the mind be the slave of a look and a word.
To gain thee men barter eternity's crown,
Yield honour, affection, and lasting renown. [ Park Benjamin ]

Make thee my knight? my knights are sworn to vows
Of utter hardihood, utter gentleness,
And, loving, utter faithfulness in love,
And uttermost obedience to the king. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Too curious man! why dost thou seek to know
Events, which, good or ill, foreknown, are woe!
The all-seeing power, that made thee mortal, gave
Thee every thing a mortal state should have. [ Dryden ]

O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee. [ Fenelon ]

Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand,
To read it well; that is to understand. [ Ben Jonson ]

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address,
Thou god of our idolatry, the Press?
By thee, religion, liberty, and laws,
Exert their influence, and advance their cause:
By thee, worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befell.
Diffused, make earth the vestibule of hell;
Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise,
Thou ever bubbling spring of endless lies,
Like Eden's dread probationary tree.
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee! [ Cowper ]

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream.
And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream. [ George Linley ]

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. [ Cervantes ]

All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me. [ William Shakespeare ]

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within. [ Socrates ]

Genius! thou gift of Heaven! thou Light divine!
Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine!
Oft will the body's weakness check thy force,
Oft damp thy Vigour, and impede thy course;
And trembling nerves compel thee to restrain
Thy noble efforts, to contend with pain;
Or Want (sad guest!) will in thy presence come,
And breathe around her melancholy gloom:
To Life's low cares will thy proud thought confine,
And make her sufferings, her impatience, thine. [ Crabbe ]

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murders in this loathsome world.
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell,
I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me none. [ William Shakespeare ]

What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? [ William Shakespeare ]

Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit,
Or what is worse, be left by it?
Why dost thou load thyself when thou 'rt to fly.
Oh, man! ordained to die?
Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high,
Thou who art under ground to lie?
Thou sow'st and plantest, but no fruit must see.
For death, alas! is reaping thee. [ Cowley ]

Money, thou bane and bliss and source of woe,
Whence com'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine?
I know thy parentage is base and low:
Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine. [ Herbert ]

Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain. [ Moore ]

Believe that each day is the last to shine upon thee. [ Horace ]

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last.
Shut thee from Heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Yet stab at thee who will, No stab the soul can kill! [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Begone, old Care, and I prithee begone from me;
For in faith, old Care, thee and I shall never agree. [ Playford ]

But zeal moved thee; To please thy gods thou didst it! [ Milton ]

Arm in arm with thee, I defy the century to gainsay me. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Gold, father of flatterers, of pain and care begot,
A fear it is to have thee, and a pain to have thee not. [ Palladas ]

The Image of Eternity - the throne
Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime
The monsters of the deep are made; each zone
Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. [ Byron ]

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free,
First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea. [ Moore ]

Twine round thee threads of steel, like thread on thread,
That grow to fetters, or bind down thy arms
With chains concealed in chaplets. Oh, not yet
Mayst thou embrace thy corselet, nor lay by
Thy sword; not yet, O Freedom, close thy lids
In slumber; for thine enemy never sleeps.
And thou must watch and combat till the day
Of the new earth and heaven. [ Bryant ]

He that gives thee a capon, give him the leg and the wing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me. [ Sterne ]

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. [ Shakespeare ]

Once again I do receive thee honest.
Who by repentance is not satisfied is nor of heaven nor earth. [ William Shakespeare ]

None knew thee but to love thee, nor named thee but to praise. [ Fitz-Greene Halleck ]

He that will do thee a good turn, either he will be gone or die. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. [ William Shakespeare ]

Ha! let the devil seize thee by a hair, and thou art his forever. [ Lessing ]

I would applaud thee to the very echo, that should applaud again. [ William Shakespeare ]

O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth. [ Saadi ]

Seraphs share with thee knowledge; but art, O man, is thine alone! [ Schiller ]

God did anoint thee with His odorous oil, to wrestle not to reign. [ Mrs. Browning ]

Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his. [ Thomas Love Peacock ]

Make not thy friends too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend. [ Fuller ]

Within this wall of flesh There is a soul counts thee her creditor.
And with advantage means to pay thy love. [ William Shakespeare ]

Death! to the happy thou art terrible;
But how the wretched love to think of thee,
O thou true comforter! the friend of all Who have no friend beside! [ Southey ]

Youth is covetous of honour; let not this covetousness seduce thee. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Be mild to others, to thyself severe, - So truth shall shield thee. [ Geoffrey Chaucer ]

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee. [ Massinger ]

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm. [ Colton ]

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again. [ Lavater ]

The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well. [ Milton ]

Lose not thy own for want of asking for it: 'twill get thee no thanks. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? Let wisdom make thee a good gamester. [ Quarles ]

Thou strong seducer, opportunity! of womankind, half are undone by thee. [ Dryden ]

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! [ William Shakespeare ]

O friendship! thou divinest alchemist, that man should ever profane thee! [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.Light gains make heavy purses.
'Tis good to be merry and wise. [ George Chapman ]

Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]

I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny. [ L. E. Landon ]

Serve a noble disposition, though poor, the time comes that he will repay thee. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if be repent, forgive him. [ Bible ]

My son, be not now negligent, for the Lord hath chosen thee to stand before Him. [ Apoc ]

It is uncertain at what place death awaits thee. Wait thou for it at every place. [ Seneca ]

Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by transgression? [ Bible ]

Seize wisdom ere 'tis torment to be wise; that is, seize wisdom ere she seizes thee. [ Young ]

Where'er I roam, whatever realm to see, my heart, untravelled, fondly turns to thee. [ Goldsmith ]

Verily, O man, with truth for thy theme, eloquence shall throne thee with archangels. [ Tupper ]

Rose of the desert! thus should woman be Shining uncourted, lone and safe, like thee. [ Moore ]

For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it' with the happiest terms I have. [ William Shakespeare ]

Two ways are open for thee out of life; one conducts to the ideal, the other to death. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Be in possession, and thou hast the right, and sacred will the many guard it for thee. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies. [ Burke ]

Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart never resteth till it findeth rest in Thee. [ St. Augustine ]

When wealthy, show thy wisdom not to be to wealth a servant, but make wealth serve thee. [ Sir J. Denham ]

The Word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. [ Bible ]

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth: a stranger, and not thine own lips. [ Bible ]

If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it. [ Epictetus ]

Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God! My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee. [ William Shakespeare ]

An old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. [ Wordsworth ]

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee! [ Barry Cornwall ]

O sweet past! sometimes remembrance raises thy long veil, then we weep in recognizing thee! [ Mme. Louise Labe ]

Thou hast amused thyself enough, hast eaten and drunk enough; 'tis time for thee to depart. [ Horace ]

Let it make no difference to thee whether thou art cold or warm, if thou art doing thy duty. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

Beware of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee. [ William Shakespeare ]

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee - devil! [ William Shakespeare ]

Though cast off, I have not fallen so low as to be beneath thee, than which nothing can be lower. [ Ovid ]

Love! Love! Eternal enigma! Will not the Sphinx that guards thee find an Oedipus to explain thee? [ F. Pyat ]

Thy eye can make the world dark or bright for thee; as thou look'st on it, it will weep or laugh. [ Rückert ]

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul, that can support despair, supports not thee. [ Mallet ]

Uprightness, judgment, and sympathy with others will profit thee at every time and in every place. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

It is enough for thee to know what each day wills; and what each day wills the day itself will tell. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and, through life and death, to force my way unto Thee. [ Christian Scriver ]

Had I not sinned, what had there been for thee to pardon? My fate has given thee the matter for mercy. [ Ovid ]

Thee, Fortune, I follow; hence far all treaties past; to fate I commit myself, and the arbitrament of war. [ Lucan on the crossing of the Rubicon by Caesar ]

Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

For none can express thee, though all should approve thee. I love thee so, dear, that I only can love thee. [ E. B. Browning ]

Friend, howsoever thou earnest by this book, I will assure thee thou wert least in my thoughts when I writ it. [ Bunyan ]

Seek knowledge, as if thou wert to be here for ever; virtue, as if death already held thee by the bristling hair. [ Herder ]

Fight valiantly today; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor. [ William Shakespeare ]

Thou hast not what others have, and others want what has been given thee; out of such defect springs good-fellowship. [ Gellert ]

Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatters favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people. [ Saadi ]

Thou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless until it repose in Thee. [ Augustine ]

Happy child! the cradle is still to thee a vast space; but when thou art a man the boundless world will be too small for thee. [ Schiller ]

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year. [ Raleigh ]

And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory. [ H. W. Beecher ]

Voltaire inscribed on a statue of Love: Whoever thou art, behold thy master! He rules thee, or has ruled thee, or will rule thee!

Though thou art disappointed in a hope, never let hope fail thee; though one door is shut, there are thousands still open for thee. [ Rückert ]

Happy child! the cradle is still to thee an infinite space; once grown into a man, and the boundless world will be too small to thee. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

If time inflicts on thee many a wound, many a joy brings it too in its course; and one short hour of bliss outweighs a year of pains. [ Geibel ]

The prayer of Lahire: God! do unto Lahire what thou wouldst Lahire should do unto Thee, if Thou were Lahire, and if Lahire were Thee!

Shun to seek what is hid in the Womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee. [ Horace ]

O gentle sleep! my welcome breath shall hail thee midst our mortal strife, who art the very thief of life, the very portraiture of death. [ Alonzo de Ledesma ]

O earth! I will befriend thee more with rain than youthful April shall with all his showers; in summer's drought I'll drop upon thee still. [ William Shakespeare ]

O, be sick, great greatness, and bid thy ceremony give thee cure! Thinkest thou the fiery fever will go out with titles blown from adulation? [ William Shakespeare ]

How can we learn to know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Essay to do thy duty, and thou knowest at once what is in thee. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee. [ William Shakespeare ]

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others; and let the world be deceived in thee, as they are in the lights of heaven. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Shouldst thou fail, let it not trouble thee, for failure (defect) leads to love. If thou canst not free thyself from failure, thou wilt never forgive others. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. Beauteous soul! when a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. [ Richter ]

Hath any wronged thee? be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work is begun; forgive it, and it is finished; he is below himself that is not above an injury. [ Quarles ]

Is thy friend angry with thee? Then provide him an opportunity of showing thee a great favor. Over that his heart must needs melt, and he will love thee again. [ Richter ]

Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee. [ James Hervey ]

We must not sit down, and look for miracles. Up, and be doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. [ John Eliot ]

Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not feel more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings. [ Lavater ]

Talent for literature, thou hast such a talent? Believe it not, be slow to believe it! To speak or to write, Nature did not peremptorily order thee; but to work she did. [ Carlyle ]

To divert at any time a troublesome fancy, run to thy books; they presently fix thee to them, and drive the other out of thy thoughts. They always receive thee with the same kindness. [ Fuller ]

When thou forgivest, - the man who has pierced thy heart stands to thee in the relation of the sea-worm that perforates the shell of the mussel which straightway closes the wound with a pearl. [ Richter ]

Judge every word and deed which is according to nature to be fit for thee, and be not diverted by the blame which follows; but if a thing is good to be done or said, do not consider it unworthy of thee. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

However powerful one may be, whether one laughs or weeps, none can make thee speak, none can open thy hand before the time, O mute phantom, our shadow! specter always masked, ever at our side, called Tomorrow. [ Victor Hugo ]

Art thou beautiful? Live, then, in accordance with the curious work and frame of the creation, and let the beauty of thy person teach thee to beautify thy mind with holiness, the ornament of the beloved of God. [ Penn ]

Learn, O student, the true wisdom. See yon bush aflame with roses, like the burning bush of Moses. Listen, and thou shalt hear, if thy soul be not deaf, how from out it, soft and clear, speaks to thee the Lord Almighty. [ Hafiz ]

Give not thy tongue too great a liberty, lest it take thee prisoner. A word unspoken is like the sword in the scabbard, thine; if vented, thy sword is in another's hand. If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue. [ Quarles ]

Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more. He asks of thee works first and words after. [ Charles Kingsley ]

I pick up favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. Of these there is a very favourite one from Thomson: Attach thee firmly to the virtuous deeds
And offices of life; to life itself,
With all its vain and transient joys, sit loose. [ Burns ]

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands. [ Goethe ]

Give thy friend counsel wisely and charitably, but leave him to his liberty whether he will follow thee or no; and be not angry if thy counsel be rejected, for advice is no empire, and he is not my friend that will be my judge whether I will or no. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit. [ Quarles ]

How oft my guardian angel gently cried, Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see How he persists to knock and wait for thee! And, O! how often to that voice of sorrow, Tomorrow we will open, I replied. And when the morrow came I answered still, Tomorrow. [ Tome Burguillos ]

The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man! [ Quarles ]

O blessed health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to receive instruction, and to relish virtue. He that has thee has little more to wish for, and he that is so wretched as to want thee, wants everything with thee. [ Sterne ]

If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things: the first, that they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast; the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess. [ Sir W. Raleigh ]

Hair is the most delicate and lasting of our materials, and survives us, like love. It is so light, so gentle, so escaping from the idea of death, that, with a lock of hair belonging to a child or friend, we may almost look up to heaven and compare notes with the angelic nature, - may almost say, I have a piece of thee here not unworthy of thy being now. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Take the title of nobility which thou hast received by birth, but endeavor to add to it another, that both may form a true nobility. There is between the nobility of thy father and thine own the same difference which exists between the nourishment of the evening and of the morrow. The food of yesterday will not serve three for today, and will not give thee strength for the next. [ Jamakchari ]

Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace. [ Quarles ]

O God, whom the world misjudges, and whom everything declares! listen to the last words that my lips pronounce! If I have wandered, it was in seeking Thy law. My heart may go astray, but it is full of Thee! I see, without alarm, eternity appear; and I can not think that a God who has given me life, that a God who has poured so many blessings on my days, will, now that my days are done, torment me for ever! [ The last prayer of Voltaire ]

If thy mother be a widow, give her double honor, who now acts the part of a double parent; remember her nine month's burden, and her tenth month's travel; forget not her indulgence, when thou didst hang upon her tender breast; call to mind her prayers for thee before thou earnest into the world; and her cares for thee when thou wert come into the world; remember her secret groans, her affectionate tears, her broken slumbers, her daily fears, her nightly frights; relieve her wants, cover her imperfections, comfort her age, and the widow's husband will be the orphan's father. [ F. Quarles ]