Coventry Patmore Quotes
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Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod.…
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The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
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Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be…
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Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.
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O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One.
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To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen…
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Life is not life at all without delight.
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Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.
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All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.
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A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.
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The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.
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Nearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions.
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One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.
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Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of…
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Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
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To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in…
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