“What, O Kunti, am I to give thee? Tell me what is in thy heart.”
Kunti character from Indian epic Mahabharata
Vayu to Kunti when Kunti invoked him.
The Mahabharata/Book 1: Adi Parva/Section CXXIII
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 124.
“What, O Kunti, am I to give thee? Tell me what is in thy heart.”
Kunti character from Indian epic Mahabharata
Vayu to Kunti when Kunti invoked him.
The Mahabharata/Book 1: Adi Parva/Section CXXIII
Hetty Bowman (1838–1872)
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 120.
Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882) British saint
Used in "Great Souls at Prayer", Edited by Mary W. Tileson, Pubished by J. Bowden, London 1898
Prayers
Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement
“Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 23.
“Thy way, not mine, O Lord,
However dark it be!
Lead me by Thine own hand;
Choose out the path for me.”
Horatius Bonar (1808–1889) British minister and poet
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 511.
“Life forgets me but will not let me forget
Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
Source: See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die