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O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse. – Aeschylus
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. – Saint Francis of Assisi
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts. – John Keats, Letter to Benjamin Bailey, Nov 1817
O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. – William Shakespeare
O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all! – Sophocles, Oedpius Rex
O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor. – Mohammed
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! – Othello
O how wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man sits enshrined visibly upon his forehead and in his eye; and the heart of man is written upon his countenance. But the soul reveals itself in the voice only, as God revealed himself to the prophet in the still small voice, and in a voice from the Burning Bush. The soul of man is audible, not visible. A sound alone betrays the flowing of the eternal fountain invisible to man. – Longfellow
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall. – Dante Alighieri
O Liberty Liberty how many crimes are committed in thy name – Jeanne-Marie Roland
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. – Saint Augustine
O many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken – Sir Walter Scott
O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo – William Shakespeare
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? – William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men. – Virgil
O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out. – W. B. Yeats, Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen
O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like rest of my race? – William Blake 1803
O Winter ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know. – William Cowper
O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies. – Saadi
O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. – Robert Burns
O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. (O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.) – Robert Burns, Poem "To a Louse" - verse 8
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. – William Shakespeare
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. – William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day! – William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 3
O, I am slain! – William Shakespeare, Hamlet. Polonius says this as Hamlet kills him behind the curtain.

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