Dost Quotations

Where hast thou wandered. gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?

Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?

Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator?

Lord, how can man preach thy eternal word? / He is a brittle crazy glass: / Yet in thy Temple thou dost him afford / This glorious and transcendent place, / To be a window, through thy grace.

Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, / And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, / Why dost thou thus, / Through windows, and through curtains call on us? / Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?

To lepers and to outcasts thou dost show - that passion is the paradise below

Thou dost knowThe faults to which the young are ever prone;The will is quick to act, the judgment weak.

When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work? / Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

How dost thou wear and weary out thy days, / Restless Ambition, never at an end!

And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

If thou dost ill, the joy fades, not the pains; If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor

To whom thy secret thou dost tell, To him thy freedom thou dost sell

Consider that thou dost not even understand whether men are doing wrong or not, for many things are done with a certain reference to circumstance. And, in short, a man must learn a great deal to enable him to pass a correct judgment on another man's acts.

Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate