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 little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world. John Selden.

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Fuller.

Thou mayest be more prodigal of praise when thou writest a letter than when thou speakest in presence. Fuller.

Thou must learn to break thine own will in many things if thou wilt have peace and concord with others. Thomas à Kempis.

Thou must live unto another if thou wilt live 40 unto thyself. Sen.

Thou must renounce; thou must abstain! is the eternal song which sounds in the ears of every one, which every hour is singing to us all our life long. Goethe.

Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law / My services are bound. King Lear, i. 2.

Thou of an independent mind, / With soul resolved, with soul resigned; / Prepared Power's proudest frown to brave, / Who wilt not be, nor have a slave; / Virtue alone who dost revere, / Thy own reproach alone dost fear, / Approach this shrine (Independence), and worship here. Burns.

Thou shall hear no more complaints from me; thou shalt hear only what happens to the wanderer. Goethe.

"Thou shalt" is written upon life in characters 45 as legible as "Thou shalt not." Carlyle.