Coventry Patmore Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.”
-- Coventry PatmoreSource : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.12, Lulu Press, Inc
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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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“What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God.”
-- Coventry PatmoreSource : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.16, Lulu.com
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“The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.”
-- Coventry PatmoreSource : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.18, Lulu.com
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“Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.”
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“The ardour chills us which we do not share.”
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“The Spirit of man is like a kite, which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise; the tie that joins it to the earth, the opposing winds of temptation, and the weight of earth-born affections which it carries with it into the sky.”
-- Coventry PatmoreSource : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.9, Lulu.com
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“It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.”
-- Coventry PatmoreSource : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.14, Lulu Press, Inc
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“The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.”
-- Coventry PatmoreSource : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc
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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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“Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.”
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“A moment's fruition of a true felicity is enough and eternity not too much.”
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“A woman is a foreign land.”
-- Coventry PatmoreSource : 1854 TheAngel in the House, bk.2,The Espousal, canto 9, prelude 2,'The Foreign Land'.
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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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“None thrives for long upon the happiest dream.”
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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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“To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!”
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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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“How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life!”
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“They who ask for no sign shall have many.”
-- Coventry PatmoreSource : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.17, Lulu Press, Inc
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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.”
-- Coventry PatmoreSource : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.20, Lulu.com
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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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“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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“Ah, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing man cannot choose but pay, How has she cheapened paradise; How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine, Which, spent with due respective thrift, Had made brutes men and men divine.”
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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.”
-- Coventry PatmoreSource : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.13, Lulu.com
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“Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod. The winter comes: the frozen rut Is bound with silver bars; the white drift heaps against the hut; and night is pierced with stars.”
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“Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.”
-- Coventry PatmoreSource : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.34, Lulu Press, Inc
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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."”
-- Coventry PatmoreSource : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.19, Lulu.com
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“One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.”
-- Coventry PatmoreSource : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.19, Lulu Press, Inc
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“Nearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions.”
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