Lord Thou Art

Famous quotes containing the words thou art, lord, thou and/or art:

    “My dream thou brok’st not, but continued’st it.
    Thou art so true that thoughts of thee suffice
    To make dreams truths and fables histories;
    Enter these arms, for since thou thought’st it best
    Not to dream all my dream, let’s act the rest.”
    —John Donne (1572–1631)

    “The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth: and he that is wise will not abhor them. Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known?”
    —Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 38:4-5.

    “But neither steele nor stony breast
    Are proof against those lookes of thine,
    Nor can a Beauty lesse divine
    Of any heart be long possest,
    Where thou pretend’st an interest.”
    —Aurelian Townshend (c. 1583–c.1651)

    “Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values it has its counterfeits. So much emphasis has been placed upon the false that the significance of the true has been obscured and politics has come to convey the meaning of crafty and cunning selfishness, instead of candid and sincere service.”
    —Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)