Quotes and Sayings About Thee
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Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.
-- Aleister Crowley -
Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
And thou shalt in thy daughter see, This picture, once, resembled thee.
-- Ambrose PhilipsSource : Thomas Parnell, Ambrose Philips (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”, p.365
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Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
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If there is no God for thee Then there is no God for me.
-- Anna Hempstead BranchSource : Anna Hempstead Branch (1929). “Sonnets from a Lock Box: And Other Poems”
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All's well with thee if thou art in just hands.
-- Anne Reeve AldrichSource : Anne Reeve Aldrich (1892). “Songs about Life, Love and Death”
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Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee.
-- Augustus TopladySource : "Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me" (hymn) (1776)
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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
-- Bayard TaylorSource : Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.134
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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend.
-- Catherine Killigrew -
I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
-- Charles Lamb -
If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me..
-- D. H. Lawrence -
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And thou who thinkest to seek for me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not, unless thou know this mystery: that if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee
-- Doreen Valiente -
Get thee behind me Satan, and push me along. I'm kin to the devil.
-- Eazy-E -
O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
-- Edna St. Vincent MillaySource : Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “Early Poems”, p.17, Courier Corporation
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Jesu, the very thought of Thee With sweetness fills the breast.
-- Edward Caswall -
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And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
For none can express thee, though all should approve thee. I love thee so, Dear, that I only can love thee.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
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Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
-- Epictetus -
I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!
-- Ferenc Kazinczy -
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Teach us, Master, how to give All we have and are to Thee; Grant us, Saviour, while we live, Wholly, only Thine to be.
-- Frances Ridley HavergalSource : Frances Ridley Havergal (1872). “The Ministry of Song”, p.31
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Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.
-- Gelett Burgess