Lord Thou Art

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

    “Affliction is enamoured of thy parts,
    And thou art wedded to calamity.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “When the people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.”
    —George Savile, Lord Halifax (1633–1695)

    “An endless imbroglio
    Is law and the world,—
    Then first shalt thou know,
    That in the wild turmoil,
    Horsed on the Proteus,
    Thou ridest to power,
    And to endurance.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “War was return of earth to ugly earth,
    War was foundering of sublimities,
    Extinction of each happy art and faith
    By which the world had still kept head in air.”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)