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Tag Name "Hadst" (12)

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Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife, No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean, But 'banished' to kill me--'banished'? O friar, the damned use that word in hell Howling attends it! How hast thou the heart, Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, A sin-absolver, and my friend professed, To mangle me with that word 'banished'?
William Shakespeare
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In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness thou hast, and the more strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst, and the more firmly prepared.
Francis Quarles
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Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.
John Ford
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If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.
William Shakespeare
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Thou call'st me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.
William Shakespeare
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Thou hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest.
William Watson
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
Ben Jonson
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Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection the object thou burnest for nauseates with satiety, and no sooner hadst thou possessed it, but thou wert weary of its presence.
Robert Dodsley
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If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death.
Thomas a Kempis
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Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born, To signify thou camest to bite the world.
William Shakespeare