Coventry Patmore Quotes
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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 Patmore
To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!
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The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.
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A moment's fruition of a true felicity is enough and eternity not too much.
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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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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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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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Nearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions.
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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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Life is not life at all without delight.
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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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How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life!
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Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!
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It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.
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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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O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One.
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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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They who ask for no sign shall have many.
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The ardour chills us which we do not share.
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The moods of love are like the wind,And none knows whence or why they rise. — Coventry Patmore
All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.
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Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.
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Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.
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The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.
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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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Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
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To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
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None thrives for long upon the happiest dream.
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Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.
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A woman is a foreign land.
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