"Were I to pray for a taste which……" — John Herschel

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• All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying. — Richard Barnfield
• Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our… — Edmund Burke
• I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right… — Miguel de Cervantes
• We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing… — Charlotte Bunch
• On a flight of emotion there's wonder and bliss, but beware of a landing that may go amiss. — Wes Fesler
• (The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in) how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God, to… — Samuel Clarke
• Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous. — Thomas McGuane
• He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he… — George MacDonald
• For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense… — Edward Dowden
• When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If… — Melissa Rosenberg
• A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss — Chrissie Hynde
• You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot… — Victor Hugo

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