Famous quotes containing the words thou art, thou, art and/or manifest:
“Throw away thy rod:
Though man frailties hath,
Thou art God:
Throw away thy wrath.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes,
Brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose”
—John Fletcher (1579–1625)
“In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.”
—William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848)