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Richard Chenevix Trench quotes: A good ship is never tested in calm waters.

A good ship is never tested in calm waters.

Richard Chenevix Trench quotes: Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew.

Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew.

Richard Chenevix Trench quotes: The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.

Richard Chenevix Trench quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?

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 quotes: Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth.

Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth.

Richard Chenevix Trench quotes: As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.

As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.

Richard Chenevix Trench quotes: Oh seize the instant time; you never willWith water once passed by impel the mill.

Oh seize the instant time; you never will
With water once passed by impel the mill.

Richard Chenevix Trench quotes: Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face.

Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face.

Richard Chenevix Trench quotes: All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.

All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.

Richard Chenevix Trench quotes: Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.

Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.

Richard Chenevix Trench quotes: Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

Richard Chenevix Trench quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

Richard Chenevix Trench quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.