"Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While……" — Coventry Patmore
"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. The winter comes: the frozen rut Is bound with silver bars; the white drift heaps against the hut; and night is pierced with stars."
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Coventry Patmore
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16 Quotes by Coventry Patmore
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The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will…
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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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