Famous quotes containing the words preserve thy, god, preserve and/or thy:
“The Lord is thy keeper; the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil; he shall preserve thy
soul.
The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalm CXXI (l. CXXI, 5–8)
“unable
To conceive a god whose temper-tantrums are moral
And not to be pacified by a clever line
Or a good lay:”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one’s own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people’s, preserve dignity.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The weary pilgrim to thy roof;
Where if, refresh’d, he will away,
He’s fairly welcome; or if stay,
Far more; which he shall hearty find
Both from the master and the hind.”
—Thomas Carew (1589–1639)