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If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?
Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.
But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described.
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.
I believe in Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment, thou shall not speak unfavorably of another Republican.
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
I don't want the sort of funeral that everybody else has, but there is one hymn, a good Protestant hymn, and it is sung at all Protestant funerals, and I think I should have it sung at mine. It is called 'The Day Thou Gave Us Lord is Ended'.
Thou hast seen nothing yet.
Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier.
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.
Where thou art, that is home.
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
