Famous quotes containing the words thy, sons and/or command:
“Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled:t hou takest away their
breath, they die, and return to their dust.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalm CIV (l. CIV, 29)
“You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days.... Farmers’ sons will stare by the hour to see a juggler draw ribbons from his throat, though he tells them it is all deception. Surely, men love darkness rather than light.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“‘Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)