Coventry Patmore Quotes
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Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!
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Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.
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Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.
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Uncommon things must be said in common words.
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How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life!
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Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.
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If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance: a sphere in which the soul says: 'Shall I, a gnat which dances in Thy ray, Dare to be reverent?'
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The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight.
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I drew my bride, beneath the moon,Across my threshold; happy hour!But, ah, the walk that afternoonWe saw the water-flags in flower!
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Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.
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Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."
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To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!
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O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One.
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A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.
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What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God.
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For want of me the world's course will not fail;When all its work is done the lie shall rot;The truth is great and shall prevailWhen none cares whether it prevail or not.
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One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.
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Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances.
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The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise.
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All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.
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The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
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The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.
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None thrives for long upon the happiest dream.
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Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it.
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The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.
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To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.
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The woman is the man's glory, and she naturally delights in the praises which are assurances that she is fulfilling her function; and she gives herself to him who succeeds in convincing her that she, of all others, is best able to discharge it for him. A woman without this kind of "vanity" is a monster.
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It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.
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A woman is a foreign land.
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Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
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