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Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.
Coventry Patmore
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Coventry Patmore
Age: 73 †
Born: 1823
Born: July 23
Died: 1896
Died: November 26
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Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
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If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance: a sphere in which the soul says: 'Shall I, a gnat which dances in Thy ray, Dare to be reverent?'
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Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it.
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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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O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One.
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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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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.
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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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Life is not life at all without delight.
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To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!
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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 modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding I don't care to I don't know.
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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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Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
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A woman is a foreign land.
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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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Uncommon things must be said in common words.
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Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.
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