God Preserve Thy

Famous quotes containing the words god, preserve and/or thy:

“Progress, man’s distinctive mark alone,
Not God’s, and not the beasts’: God is, they are,
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)

“The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“When from thy shore the tempest beat us back,
I stood upon the hatches in the storm.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)