"By the by, if the English race had……" — Gerard Manley Hopkins
"By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind."
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42 Quotes by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins has 42 quotes on this site.
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I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This…
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We have him [God] before our eyes, masked in the sacred Host
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What you look at hard seems to look at you.
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Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep.
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Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that…
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The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in…
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What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we…
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Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
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It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time…
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Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.
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But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew…
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The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.
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More Done Nothing Quotes
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Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for…
— Abraham Lincoln
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When Jesus sees a heart that can't wait, He cant wait either. At the wedding at Cana, Jesus may have…
— Reinhard Bonnke
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My whole life long I have done nothing but interpret my dreams of ultimate masculinity, and draw them.
— Tom of Finland
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I don't know what people have against Jimmy Carter. He's done nothing.
— Bob Hope
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TV's Tony Snow becomes the White House press secretary. How will he make the difficult transition from Fox News reporter…
— Stephen Colbert
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I love acting. Oh, God, I love it. But all this fame and all this bullshit attention. I'm not supernatural.…
— Heath Ledger
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I've done nothing I'm ashamed of. Nothing I couldn't face God with. I wouldn't kill a bug.
— Charles Manson
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Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
— Samuel Johnson
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I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine…
— David Brainerd
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Since 1960, there have been more plastic syringes available than anyone could need. And yet, for the decades since then,…
— Jon Rappoport
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When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
— Laozi
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It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.
— Antoine Rivarol
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