"Grammar is the logic of speech, even as……" — Richard Chenevix Trench

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar… - Richard Chenevix Trench

"Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason."

— Richard Chenevix Trench

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11 Quotes by Richard Chenevix Trench

Richard Chenevix Trench has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming…
If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps,…
For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such…
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has…
Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.
None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so…
We kneel, how weak; we rise, how full of power! Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others…
There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we…
The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good; and many a good book has remained unwritten... because there floated…

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More Editing Quotes

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I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that. — Drew Barrymore
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. — Josh Billings
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card
I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut. — Graydon Carter
The greatest thing that prepared me for editing 'Vanity Fair' was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate… — Graydon Carter
I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with… — Margaret Cho
I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst… — Priyanka Chopra
Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Everyone needs an editor. — Timothy Foote
The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is. — August Wilson
Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point. — George D. Prentice
Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too. — Blake Morrison

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