"Language is the amber in which a thousand……" — Richard Chenevix Trench
"Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved."
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Richard Chenevix Trench
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11 Quotes by Richard Chenevix Trench
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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…
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If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps,…
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For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such…
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Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has…
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Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
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Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.
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None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so…
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We kneel, how weak; we rise, how full of power! Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others…
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There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we…
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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 Amber Quotes
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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has…
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Well, Amber [Heard] is still raising her eyebrow at me because I said that I've been 180 miles per hour…
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There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubble in amber.
— Neil Gaiman
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I have so many [on-set Glee BFFs]. I love Kevin (McHale). I love Amber (Riley); Amber and I are essentially…
— Alex Newell
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But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and…
— John Milton
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If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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The first thing I did when I made a little bit of money as a singer was to buy myself…
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Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The…
— John Milton
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The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong;…
— Elinor Wylie
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When it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber…
— John Scalzi
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There is no mysterious essence we can call a 'place'. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind,…
— John Austin Baker
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