"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. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning."
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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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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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Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.
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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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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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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…
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Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
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If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too…
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Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The…
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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;…
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When it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber…
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There is no mysterious essence we can call a 'place'. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind,…
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