Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art

Famous quotes containing the words thou art, would i, steadfast, thou and/or art:

    My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.
    The world shall find this miracle in me,
    That fire can burn when all the matter’s spent:
    Then what my faith hath been thyself shalt see,
    And that thou wast unkind thou may’st repent.—
    Thou may’st repent that thou hast scorn’d my tears,
    When Winter snows upon thy sable hairs.
    Samuel Daniel (1562–1619)

    Chief Justice. Your means are very slender, and your waste is great.
    Falstaff. I would it were otherwise. I would my means were greater, and my waist slenderer.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    For all the saints who from their labors rest,
    Who, to the world their steadfast faith confessed,
    your name, O Jesus, be forever blessed
    Alleluia!
    William Walsham How (1823–1897)

    Blow, blow, thou winter wind!
    Thou art not so unkind
    As man’s ingratitude;
    Thy tooth is not so keen
    Because thou art not seen,
    Although thy breath be rude.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
    Albert Camus (1913–1960)