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• Thou beliest thine own heart, Peleg.

• To that of the universe, that thou mayest remember, part of whom thou art.

• Ev’n as soon as thou canst, for thou hast to pull at a smack o’ th’ contrary.

• Sleep thou who art born to sleep, or do as thou wilt, for I will act as I think most consistent with my character.”

• But if thou shalt say I am meroz, or a part, thou dost not yet love men from thy heart.

• By the Gods I adjure thee, that thou get thee gone, as thou earnest: for I need thee not.

• Just as much reason hast thou to grieve that thou must live but so many years, and not longer.

• But thou after a sort deniest them this liberty, as often as thou art angry with them for their sins.

Use thou in a sentence.

• For this when thou knowest, thou wilt pity him thou wilt have no occasion either to wonder, or to be angry.

• That done, if thou find not that thy nature, as thou art a living sensible creature, will be the worse for it, thou mayest proceed.

•                     3 Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest, Now is the time that face should form another, Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest, Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.

• And that although thou dost despair, that thou shalt ever be a good either logician, or naturalist, yet thou art never the further off by it from being either liberal, or modest, or charitable, or obedient unto God.

• which so long thou hast been used unto and therefore tolerable: or thou doest retire, or leave the world, and that of thine own accord, and then thou hast thy mind: or thy life is cut off; and then mayst thou rejoice that thou hast ended thy charge.

• Thee have I not locked up in any chest, Save where thou art not, though I feel thou art, Within the gentle closure of my breast, From whence at pleasure thou mayst come and part,   And even thence thou wilt be stol’n I fear,   For truth proves thievish for a prize so dear.

• —I swear to God thou liest as I am Christian: if thou droppest lance and drawest sword, soon shalt thou see thou art carrying water to the cat: Biscayan on land, hidalgo at sea, hidalgo at the devil, and look, if thou sayest otherwise thou liest.”

• No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call, All mine was thine, before thou hadst this more: Then if for my love, thou my love receivest, I cannot blame thee, for my love thou usest, But yet be blamed, if thou thy self deceivest By wilful taste of what thy self refusest.

thou sentence examples

• at hand for all sudden cures; so have thou always thy dogmata in a readiness for the knowledge of things, both divine and human: and whatsoever thou dost, even in the smallest things that thou dost, thou must ever remember that mutual relation, and connection that is between these two things divine, and things human.

• “It is as thou sayest,” said Don Quixote, “for the notebook in which I wrote it I found in my own possession two days after thy departure, which gave me very great vexation, as I knew not what thou wouldst do on finding thyself without any letter; and I made sure thou wouldst return from the place where thou didst first miss it.”

• understanding, which to be aware of, thou must carefully observe: and whensoever thou doest discover them, thou must rectify them, saying to thyself concerning every one of them, This imagination is not necessary; this is uncharitable: this thou shalt speak as another man's slave, or instrument; than which nothing can be more senseless and absurd: for the fourth, thou shalt sharply check and upbraid thyself; for that thou doest suffer that more divine part in thee, to become subject and obnoxious to that more ignoble part of thy body, and the gross lusts and concupiscences thereof.

•                     11 As fast as thou shalt wane so fast thou grow’st, In one of thine, from that which thou departest, And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestow’st, Thou mayst call thine, when thou from youth convertest, Herein lives wisdom, beauty, and increase, Without this folly, age, and cold decay, If all were minded so, the times should cease, And threescore year would make the world away: Let those whom nature hath not made for store, Harsh, featureless, and rude, barrenly perish: Look whom she best endowed, she gave thee more; Which bounteous gift thou shouldst in bounty cherish:   She carved thee for her seal, and meant thereby,   Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die.