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> [Time has three dimensions and one positive pitch or direction. It is therefore not so much like any river or any sea as like the Sea of Galilee, which has the Jordan running through it and giving a current to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerard-manley-hopkins/time-has-three-dimensions-and-one-positive-pitch-or-direction-it-is/)

[Gerard Manley Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerard-manley-hopkins/)

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## More by Gerard Manley Hopkins

> [No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerard-manley-hopkins/no-wonder-of-it-sheer-plod-makes-plough-down-sillion-shine-and-blue/)

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> [O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerard-manley-hopkins/o-the-mind-mind-has-mountains-cliffs-of-fall-frightful-sheer-no-man/)

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> [Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerard-manley-hopkins/do-you-know-a-horrible-thing-has-happened-to-me-i-have-begun-to-doubt/)

[Gerard Manley Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerard-manley-hopkins/)

> [Time has three dimensions and one positive pitch or direction. It is therefore not so much like any river or any sea as like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerard-manley-hopkins/time-has-three-dimensions-and-one-positive-pitch-or-direction-it-is/)

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> [And though we do have him before our eyes, masked in the Sacred Host, at mass and Benediction and within our lips receive him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerard-manley-hopkins/and-though-we-do-have-him-before-our-eyes-masked-in-the-sacred-host/)

[Gerard Manley Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerard-manley-hopkins/)

> [The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerard-manley-hopkins/the-effect-of-studying-masterpieces-is-to-make-me-admire-and-do/)

[Gerard Manley Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerard-manley-hopkins/)

> [I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerard-manley-hopkins/i-always-knew-in-my-heart-walt-whitman-s-mind-to-be-more-like-my-own/)

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> [What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden.-Have, get, before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerard-manley-hopkins/what-is-all-this-juice-and-all-this-joy-a-strain-of-the-earth-s-sweet/)

[Gerard Manley Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerard-manley-hopkins/)

> [It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smitting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerard-manley-hopkins/it-is-not-only-prayer-that-gives-god-glory-but-work-smitting-on-an/)

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> [“I awoke in the Midsummer not to call night, in the white and the walk of the morning: The moon, dwindled and thinned to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerard-manley-hopkins/i-awoke-in-the-midsummer-not-to-call-night-in-the-white-and-the-walk/)

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> [When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerard-manley-hopkins/when-i-compare-myself-my-being-myself-with-anything-else-whatever-all/)

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> [All the world is full of inscapeand chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerard-manley-hopkins/all-the-world-is-full-of-inscapeand-chance-left-free-to-act-falls/)

[Gerard Manley Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerard-manley-hopkins/)

> [“What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerard-manley-hopkins/what-would-the-world-be-once-bereft-of-wet-and-of-wildness-let-them/)

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> [The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerard-manley-hopkins/the-world-is-charged-with-the-grandeur-of-god-it-will-flame-out-like/)

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> [I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerard-manley-hopkins/i-think-that-the-trivialness-of-life-is-and-personally-to-each-one/)

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