"The best is oftentimes the enemy of the……" — Richard Chenevix Trench
"The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good; and many a good book has remained unwritten... because there floated before the mind's eye the ideal of a better or a best."
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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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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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