Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Thou art in the end what thou art. Goethe.

Thou art not alone if thou have faith. There is a communion of saints, unseen, yet not unreal, accompanying and brotherlike embracing thee, so thou be worthy. Carlyle.

Thou art the ruin of the noblest man / That ever lived in the tide of times. Jul. Cæs., iii. 1.

Thou art thyself to all eternity. D. G. Rossetti.

Thou awakest us to delight in thy praise; for 30 thou madest us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it repose in thee. St. Augustine.

Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, / And death unloads thee. Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.

Thou canst not be entirely free till thou hast attained to such a mastery as entirely to subdue and deny thyself. Thomas à Kempis.

Thou dost not strive, O Sun, but, meek and still, / Thou dost the type of Jesus best fulfil, / A noiseless revelation in the sky. F. W. Faber.

Thou hast given me / A world of earthly blessings to my soul, / If sympathy of love unite our thoughts. 2 Hen. VI., i. 1.

Thou hast not what others have, and others 35 have not the gift thou hast. From this imperfection springs sociability. Gellert.