Thy Quotes

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."

Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.

The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.

Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy glory.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.

He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.

Thy verses are eternal, O my friend, For he who reads them, reads them to no end.

Bathe thy breathing tresses, meekest Eve!

Greece, sound thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, / But England's Milton equals both in fame.

So live that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

Care to dispend according to thy store, And in like sort be mindful of the poor.

Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear.

I love thee for a heart that's kind -- not for the knowledge in thy mind.

Sleep, sleep, beauty bright, Dreaming in the joys of night; Sleep, sleep; in thy sleep Little sorrows sit and weep.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.