Richard Chenevix Trench quotes
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“For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.”
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“We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste.”
-- Richard Chenevix TrenchSource : Richard Chenevix Trench (1874). “Poems”, p.135
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“Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed,Not all who fail have therefor worked in vain.There is no failure for the good and brave.”
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“Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth.”
-- Richard Chenevix TrenchSource : Richard Chenevix Trench (1865). “Poems: Collected and Arranged Anew”, p.33
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“Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.”
-- Richard Chenevix TrenchSource : Richard Chenevix Trench (1873). “A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from Their Present”, p.49
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“All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.”
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“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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“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.”
-- Richard Chenevix TrenchSource : Richard Chenevix Trench (1856). “On the lessons in Proverbs: being the substance of lectures delivered to young men's societies at Portsmouth and elsewhere; from the Second London edition, rev. and enlarged”, p.89
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“We kneel, how weak; we rise, how full of power! Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others — that we are not always strong, That we are ever overborne with care, That we should ever weak or heartless be, Anxious or troubled, when with us is prayer, And joy and strength and courage are with Thee?”
-- Richard Chenevix TrenchSource : Richard Chenevix Trench (1844). “The Story of Justin Martyr : Sabbation and Other Poems”, p.250
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“None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.”
-- Richard Chenevix TrenchSource : richard chenevix trench (1862). “notes of the parables of our lord”, p.325
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“Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.”
-- Richard Chenevix TrenchSource : Richard Chenevix Trench (1867). “On the Study of Words Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training-school, Winchester by Richard Chenevix Trench”, p.24
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“Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.”
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“Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.”
-- Richard Chenevix TrenchSource : Richard Chenevix Trench (1867). “On the Study of Words Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training-school, Winchester by Richard Chenevix Trench”, p.22
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“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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“If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If, never leaving Thee, we have no need Our wandering spirits back again to lead Into Thy presence, but continued there Like angels standing on the highest stair Of the Sapphire Throne: this were to pray indeed!”
-- Richard Chenevix TrenchSource : Richard Chenevix Trench (1838). “Sabbation: Honor Neale : and Other Poems”, p.168
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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 God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness.”
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“As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.”
-- Richard Chenevix TrenchSource : Richard Chenevix Trench (1911). “The Study of Words”
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