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A good ship is never tested in calm waters.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
One! said the count mysteriously, his eyes fixed on the corpse, disfigured by so awful a death.
— Alexandre Dumas
Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
A career is a job that has gone on too long.
— Jeff MacNelly
The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
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.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?
— Richard Chenevix Trench
Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
Oh seize the instant time; you never will
With water once passed by impel the mill. — Richard Chenevix Trench
With water once passed by impel the mill. — Richard Chenevix Trench
I snore. I've had two or three people complain about it.
— Sheryl Crow
Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.
— DeForest Kelley
The revolution of ages may bring round the same calamities; but ages may revolve without producing a Tacitus to describe them.
— Edward Gibbon
The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Life is full of bullshit; reject or deal with it, but move on.
— Sue Fitzmaurice
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 Trench
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.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
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 Trench
He is ugly and sad ... but he is all love.
Love in the Time of Cholera — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera — Gabriel Garcia Marquez