"There is hardly a mistake which in the……" — Richard Chenevix Trench
"There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it."
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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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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 Attended Quotes
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
— Saul Bellow
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Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public…
— Eli Broad
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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
— Winston Churchill
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I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
— Woody Allen
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When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.
— Diablo Cody
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Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
— Thomas Paine
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their…
— Charles Darwin
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Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
— Jonathan Swift
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Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long…
— Samuel Adams
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During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull.…
— Charles Darwin
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I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you…
— Blaise Pascal
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