Top 67 Wouldst Thou Quotes
#1. Wouldst thou find my ashes? Look
In the pages of my book;
And as these thy hand doth turn,
Know here is my funeral urn.
Adelaide Crapsey
#2. Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? diminish them wisely; or wouldst thou make thy estate entire? divide it charitably. Seeds that are scattered increase; but, hoarded up, they perish.
Francis Quarles
#3. Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying, Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do?
George MacDonald
#4. If the wild filly, "Progress," thou wouldst ride,
Have young companions ever at thy side;
But wouldst thou stride the stanch old mare, "Success,"
Go with thine elders, though they please thee less.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#5. The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch of a little world? command thyself.
Francis Quarles
#6. Let love therefore be what it will, my Uncle Toby fell into it - And possibly, gentle reader, with such a temptation so wouldst thou: For never did thy eyes behold, or thy concupiscence covet, anything in this world more concupiscible than widow Wadman.
Laurence Sterne
#7. Far must thy researches go
Wouldst thou learn the world to know;
Thou must tempt the dark abyss
Wouldst thou prove what Being is;
Naught but firmness gains the prize,
Naught but fullness makes us wise,
Buried deep truth e'er lies.
Friedrich Schiller
#8. Dost thou love picking meat? Or wouldst thou see
A man in the clouds, and have him speak to thee?
John Bunyan
#9. Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee? BEATRICE Yea, signior, and depart when you bid me. BENEDICK O, stay but till then! BEATRICE 'Then' is spoken; fare you well now ... (Much Ado About Nothing)
William Shakespeare
#10. Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.
Benjamin Franklin
#12. Wouldst thou, then, have preferred the condition of a weak woman, exposed to all evil and capable of none?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#13. Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure,
Pass the days of life's short measure,
From the slow one counsel take,
But a tool of him ne'er make;
Ne'er as friend the swift one know,
Nor the constant one as foe.
Friedrich Schiller
#14. Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others.
Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.
Friedrich Schiller
#16. Art thou afeard
To be the same in thine own act and valour
As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that
Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,
And live a coward in thine own esteem,
Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,'
Like the poor cat i' the adage?
William Shakespeare
#17. Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#18. Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
Edward Young
#19. What wouldst thou do, old man?
Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak
When power to flattery bows?
William Shakespeare
#20. Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.
Confucius
#21. Thou wouldst not enslave man by a miracle, and didst crave faith given freely, not based on miracle. Thou didst crave for free love and not the base raptures of the slave before the might that has overawed him for ever.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#22. If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.
Francis Quarles
#23. If thou art worn and hard beset,
With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget;
If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep
Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep,
Go to the woods and hills! No tears
Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#24. Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild
Mingled in harmony on Nature's face,
Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot
Fail not with weariness, for on their tops
The beauty and the majesty of earth,
Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget
The steep and toilsome way.
William C. Bryant
#26. If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death. It were better for thee to watch against sin, than to fly from death. If to-day thou art not ready, how shalt thou be ready to-morrow? To-morrow is an uncertain day; and how knowest thou that thou shalt have a to-morrow?
Thomas A Kempis
#27. Didst thou but know the inly touch of love
Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow
As seek to quench the fire of love with words. (2.7.18-20)
William Shakespeare
#28. Judge not; the workings of his brain
And of his heart thou canst not see;
What looks to thy dim eyes a stain,
In God's pure light may only be
A scar, brought from some well-won field,
Where thou wouldst only faint and yield.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#29. With patient course thy path of duty run;
God nothing does, nor suffers to be done,
What thou wouldst do thyself, couldst thou but see;
The end of all events as well as He.
Marshall Broomhall
#30. Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.
Edmund Waller
#31. Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain.
Horatius Bonar
#32. If thou wouldst be justified, acknowledge thine injustice. He that confesses his sin, begins his journey toward salvation. He that is sorry for it, mends his pace. He that forsakes it, is at his journey's end.
Francis Quarles
#33. If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?
Thomas A Kempis
#34. If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.
William Penn
#35. Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.
Confucius
#36. Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which though doest not.
Baha'u'llah
#37. Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.
Marcus Aurelius
#38. If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
John Lancaster Spalding
#39. Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert
Sophocles
#40. It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.
Thomas A Kempis
#41. Thou hast but enraged, not insulted me, sir; but for that I ask thee not to beware of Starbuck; thou wouldst but laugh; but let Ahab beware of Ahab; beware of thyself, old man.
Herman Melville
#42. Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#45. Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.
Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
#46. If thou wilt be observant and vigilant, thou wilt see at every moment the response to thy action. Be observant if thou wouldst have a pure heart, for something is born to thee in consequence of every action.
Rumi
#47. Be patient, if thou wouldst thy ends accomplish; for like patience is there no appliance effective of success, producing certainly abundant fruit of actions, never damped by failure, conquering all impediments.
J. K. Bharavi
#48. Dear friend, I pray thee, if thou wouldst be proving Thy strong regard for me, Make me no vows. Lip-service is not loving; Let thy faith speak for thee ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#49. Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.
Thomas Hobbes
#51. By showing him so much respect, Thou didst, as it were, cease to feel for him, for Thou didst ask far too much from Him
Thou who has loved him more than Thyself! Respecting him less, Thou wouldst have asked less of him. That would have been more like love, for his burden would have been lighter.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#52. Thou wouldst not think how ill all's here about my heart Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth I have of late - but wherefore I know not - lost all my mirth So
Jean Hegland
#53. If thou wouldst please the ladies, thou must endeavor to make them pleased with themselves.
Thomas Fuller
#54. Occupy thyself with few things, says the philosopher, if thou wouldst be tranquil.-
Marcus Aurelius
#55. Friend let this be enough. If thou wouldst go on reading. Go thyself and become the writing and the meaning
Angelus Silesius
#57. And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Venerable Bede
#58. Two sources of success are known: wisdom and effort; make them both thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise.
Magha
#59. If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.
William Penn
#60. Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart From its present pathway part not; Being everything which now thou art, Be nothing which thou art not. So with the world thy gentle ways, Thy grace, thy more than beauty, Shall be an endless theme of praise. And love a simple duty.
Edgar Allan Poe
#61. Approach a great painting as thou wouldst approach a great prince.
Okakura Kakuzo
#62. If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#63. Prithee," He protested, "if thou wouldst waiteth a goddamned second-
Tessa Dare
#64. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here about my heart;but it is no matter.
William Shakespeare
#66. Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.
C.S. Lewis
#67. If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.
Thomas A Kempis
