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> [Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-chenevix-trench/language-is-the-amber-in-which-a-thousand-precious-and-subtle/)

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## More by Richard Chenevix Trench

> [For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-chenevix-trench/for-we-must-share-if-we-would-keep-that-blessing-from-above-ceasing/)

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> [If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-chenevix-trench/if-we-with-earnest-effort-could-succeed-to-make-our-life-one-long/)

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> [The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-chenevix-trench/the-sin-of-pride-is-the-sin-of-sins-in-which-all-subsequent-sins-are/)

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> [Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-chenevix-trench/language-is-the-amber-in-which-a-thousand-precious-and-subtle/)

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> [Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-chenevix-trench/nothing-is-true-but-love-nor-aught-of-worth-love-is-the-incense-which/)

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> [Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-chenevix-trench/sin-may-be-clasped-so-close-we-cannot-see-its-face/)

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> [Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-chenevix-trench/best-friends-might-loathe-us-if-what-things-perverse-we-know-of-our/)

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> [All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-chenevix-trench/all-beautiful-things-bring-sadness-nor-alone-sweet-music-as-our/)

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> [Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-chenevix-trench/prayer-is-not-getting-man-s-will-done-in-heaven-but-getting-god-s/)

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> [As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-chenevix-trench/as-shadows-attend-substances-so-words-follow-upon-things/)

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> ["The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good;" and without claiming for an instant that title of good for my book, I do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-chenevix-trench/the-best-is-oftentimes-the-enemy-of-the-good-and-without-claiming-for/)

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> [We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-chenevix-trench/we-speak-of-persons-as-jovial-as-being-born-under-the-planet-jupiter/)

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> [Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-chenevix-trench/grammar-is-the-logic-of-speech-even-as-logic-is-the-grammar-of-reason/)

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> [None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-chenevix-trench/none-but-god-can-satisfy-the-longings-of-an-immortal-soul-that-as-the/)

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> [The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-chenevix-trench/the-love-of-our-own-language-what-is-it-in-fact-but-the-love-of-our/)

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