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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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Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
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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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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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The moods of love are like the wind,
And none knows whence or why they rise.
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Having my law the seventh time disobey'd,
I struck him, and dismiss'd
With hard words and unkiss'd,
—His Mother, who was patient, being dead.
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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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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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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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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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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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The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.
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Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.
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Some dish more sharply spiced than this
Milk-soup men call domestic bliss.
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Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.
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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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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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Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.
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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.
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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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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 prevail
When none cares whether it prevail or not.
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I drew my bride, beneath the moon,
Across my threshold; happy hour!
But, ah, the walk that afternoon
We saw the water-flags in flower!
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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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Coventry Patmore
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Born:
July 23, 1823
Died:
November 26, 1896
(aged 73)
Bio:
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was an English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House, his narrative poem about an ideal happy marriage.
Known for:
The Angel in the House (1851)
The Unknown Eros (1878)
The Victories of Love and other Poems (1862)
Faithful For Ever (1860)
The rod, the root, and the flower (1895)
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