Tis Quotes - page 15

The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth. 'Tis not the affair of a city, a country, a province, or a kingdom, but of a continent-of at least one eighth part of the habitable globe. (Thomas Paine)
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. View quote
Thomas Paine
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern. View quote
Edward Moore
I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me If my bark sinks, tis to another sea. View quote
William Ellery Channing
I let my temper get the best of me and I go off, for no reason, Tis is the beginning of kicking in yo door season. View quote
Z-Ro
Tis Summer Time on Bredon, And now the farmers swear: The cattle rise and listen In valleys far and near, And blush at what they hear. But when the mists in autumn On Bredon top are thick, And happy hymns of farmers Go up from fold and rick, The cattle then are sick. View quote
Hugh Kingsmill
'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, Careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit And serve our jape's turn for a night or two. View quote
Ezra Pound
'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn. View quote
Ezra Pound
'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. View quote
Alexander Pope
Authors are partial to their Wit, 'tis true, But are not Criticks to their Judgment too? View quote
Alexander Pope
Crimson clover I discover By the garden gate, And the bees about her hover, But the robins wait. Sing, robins, sing, Sing a roundelay,- 'Tis the latest flower of Spring Coming with the May! (Dora Read Goodale)
Good doth with evil alternate, And, deeply pondering, we shall learn 'tis this Diversity that makes the world so fair. View quote
Ubaldo Mari
. . . 'tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell. View quote
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for. View quote
Margaret Mitchell
'Tis held that sorrow makes us wise. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Tis not for Spring to think on all The sear and waste of Autumn's fall:. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Beautiful weakness! oh, if weak, That woman's heart should tinge her cheek! 'Tis sad to change it for the strength That heart and cheek must know at length. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Remembrance makes the poet; 'tis the past Lingering within him, with a keener sense Than is upon the thoughts of common men Of what has been, that fills the actual world With unreal likenesses of lovely shapes, That were and are not; and the fairer they, The more their contrast with existing things, The more his power, the greater is his grief. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Tis something, if in absence we can see The footsteps of the past: it soothes the heart To breathe the air scented in other years By lips beloved; to wander through the groves Where once we were not lonely. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Tis strange how the heart can create Or colour from itself its fate; We make ourselves our own distress, We are ourselves our happiness. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
THERE rests a shade above yon town, A dark funereal shroud: 'Tis not the tempest hurrying down, 'Tis not a summer cloud. The smoke that rises on the air Is as a type and sign; A shadow flung by the despair Within those streets of thine. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
He must be rich whom I could love, His fortune clear must be, Whether in land or in the funds, 'Tis all the same to me. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Tis May again, another May, Looking as if it meant to stay; So many are its thousand flowers, So glorious are its sunny hours, So green its earth, so blue its sky, As made for Hope's eternity. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Let the rose fall, another rose Will bloom upon the self-same tree; Let the bird die, ere evening close Some other bird will sing for me. It is for the beloved to love, 'Tis for the happy to be kind; Sorrow will more than death remove The associate links affections bind. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon