Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton famous quotes

Last updated: Jul 22, 2024

Grand Thoughts that never can be wearied out, Showing the unreality of Time.
-- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#Unreality
My exit is the result of too many entrees.
-- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#Exit #Results #Last Words
They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear.
-- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#Prayer #Soul #Bears
I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still.
-- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#Flow #Wheels #Sides
Love will always be the most powerful force.
-- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#Love #Powerful #Most Powerful
It's not the lack of ability or opportunity that holds you back; it is only a lack of confidence in yourself.
-- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#Confidence #Opportunity #Ability
Can every anguish calmly bear.
-- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#Spiritual #Bears #Anguish
Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares.
-- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#Feelings #Instinct
The beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard.
-- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#Heart #Sound #Heard
But on and up, where Nature's heart Beats strong amid the hills.
-- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#Strong #Heart #Hills
The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize.
-- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#Life #Lying #Struggle
He who for love hath undergone The worst that can befall, Is happier thousandfold than one Who never loved at all.
-- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#Life #Worst
A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet.
-- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#Life #Lying #Men

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