"The more wild and incredible your desire, the……" — Coventry Patmore
"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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16 Quotes by Coventry Patmore
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Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night…
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Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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