Instant Quote by Richard Chenevix Trench

“Oh seize the instant time; you never will With water once passed by impel the mill.”

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For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of…

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If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are;…

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The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the…

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Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning…

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Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth.

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Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face.

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Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew.

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All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.

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Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying…

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As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.

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"The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good;" and without claiming for an instant that title of good for my book, I do not doubt that many a good book has remained unwritten, or, perhaps, being written, has remained unpublished, because there floated before the mind's eye of the author, or possible author, the ideal of a better or…

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