Thee Quotes - page 5

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. (Tacitus)
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 'tis the happy that have called thee so. View quote
Robert Southey
The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship's gifts are priceless all." View quote
Theocritus
I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! -and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV. View quote
Ani DiFranco
I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
But did thee feel the earth move? View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom. View quote
Margaret Fuller
To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint! (Hannah More)
Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses-Cupid paid: He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lips, the rose Growing one's cheek (but none knows how); With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin: All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes- She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this for thee? What shall, alas! become of me? View quote
John Lyly
A Satanist practices the motto, "If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other!" Let no wrong go unredressed. View quote
Anton LaVey
Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee. View quote
Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no more To thee, God's daughter, powerful as God, It is that thou hast made my life too sweet To hold the added sweetness of a song. There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace. View quote
Sara Teasdale
The Autumn seems to cry for thee, Best lover of the Autumn-days! View quote
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
O Lord! take my heart, for I cannot give it; and when Thou hast it, O! keep it, for I cannot keep it for Thee; and save me in spite of myself, for Jesus Christ's sake. View quote
François Fénelon
Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end? View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist-slack they may be-these last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. (Harry Dean Stanton)
Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die. View quote
George Whitefield
How shall we rank thee upon glory's page, Thou more than soldier, and just less than sage. View quote
Thomas Moore
Ruin seize thee, ruthless King! Confusion on thy banners wait, Though fanned by Conquest's crimson wing They mock the air with idle state. View quote
Thomas Gray
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee. View quote
William Cowper