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  • Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be? -- Lucy Larcom
  • Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire. -- Charles Dickens
  • Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain -- William Shakespeare
  • But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?" Catherine: "I cannot tell." Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them. -- William Shakespeare
  • Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee. -- George Herbert
  • To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. -- William Shakespeare
  • All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star. -- Francis Thompson
  • Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again. -- Omar Khayyam
  • Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. -- John Donne
  • Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection. -- Saint Ambrose
  • Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon. -- Ada Leverson
  • All chance, direction, which thou canst not see -- Alexander Pope
  • If thou canst believe, all things are possible. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Thou canst not speak of thou dost not feel. -- William Shakespeare
  • Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind. -- John Milton
  • Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure. -- William Shakespeare
  • At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully. -- Thomas a Kempis
  • Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God. -- John Ruskin
  • Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me. -- John Donne
  • Faith ever says, "If Thou wilt," not "If Thou canst. -- Martin Luther
  • Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou? -- Charles Spurgeon
  • See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven. -- Dante Alighieri
  • If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. -- Norman Vincent Peale
  • If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher. -- Marcus Aurelius
  • [T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself. -- Robert Burton
  • Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand. -- George Herbert
  • Go where thou wilt, thou canst not go out of thy Father's ground. -- Thomas Boston
  • Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more. -- William Wordsworth
  • Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil! -- Robert Burns
  • Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest. -- William Shakespeare
  • Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away. -- William Cowper
  • Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not. -- William Gurnall
  • Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not. -- John Milton
  • Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen. -- William Penn
  • Thou canst not pray to God without praying to Love, but mayest pray to Love without praying to God. -- Richard B. Garnett
  • What thou art, that thou art; that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater. -- Thomas a Kempis
  • I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou canst eat it all thyself. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • If thou canst but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress and thy ease. -- Henry Vaughan
  • False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight. -- Francis Quarles
  • Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be. -- Martial
  • Wander at will, Day after day,-- Wander away, Wandering still-- Soul that canst soar! Body may slumber: Body shall cumber Soul-flight no more. -- Robert Browning
  • Music, oh, how faint, how weak,Language fades before thy spell!Why should Feeling ever speak,When thou canst breathe her soul so well~? -- Thomas Moore
  • All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself. -- Marcus Aurelius
  • Yet I did love thee to the last, As ferverently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now. -- Lord Byron
  • 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
  • Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother. -- William Shakespeare
  • Think not thou canst sigh a sigh And thy maker is not by; Think not thou canst weep a tear And thy maker is not near. -- William Blake
  • All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. -- Alexander Pope
  • Take them, O Death! and bear away Whatever thou canst call thine own! Thine image, stamped upon this clay, Doth give thee that, but that alone! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. -- William Shakespeare
  • What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created. -- Thomas a Kempis
  • If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not! -- Leonard Ravenhill
  • Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy! -- William Gurnall
  • Each time thou wishest to decide upon performing some enterprise, raise the eyes to heaven, pray God to bless thy project; if thou canst make that prayer, accomplish thy work. -- Leopold Schefer
  • Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe! -- George Crabbe
  • O money, money, money. I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, but I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly. -- Ogden Nash
  • Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage. -- William Shakespeare
  • Riches, the dumb god that giv'st all men tongues, / That canst do nought, and yet mak'st men do all things; / The price of souls; even hell, with thee to boot, / Is made worth heaven! -- Ben Jonson
  • Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree . . . when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself. -- Marcus Aurelius
  • If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art no better than a fly. Conquer thy heart that thou mayest become somebody. -- Aziz Ansari
  • Be not afraid to pray--to pray is right. Pray, if thou canst, with hope; but ever pray, Though hope be weak or sick with long delay; Pray in the darkness, if there be no light. -- Hartley Coleridge
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