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Canst thou not wait for Love one flying hour
O heart of little faith?

Edmund Gosse

My Mother always deferred to my Father, and in his absence spoke of him to me, as if he were all-wise. I confused him in some sense with God.

Edmund Gosse

In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral life. To be marooned, to be shut up in a solitary cell, to inhabit a lighthouse, or to camp alone in a forest, these have always seemed to me afflictions too heavy to be borne, even in imagination. A state in which conversation exists not, is for me an air too empty of oxygen for my lungs to breathe it.

Edmund Gosse

My father's theory... was defined by a hasty press as being this—that God hid the fossils in the rocks in order to tempt geologists into infidelity.

Edmund Gosse

I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of Mrs. Punch and some restraint held over a temper, naturally violent, by Mr. Punch, a great deal of this sad misunderstanding might have been prevented.

Edmund Gosse

Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.

Edmund Gosse

Edmund Gosse

Edmund Gosse

Born: September 21, 1849

Died: May 16, 1928 (aged 78)

Bio: Sir Edmund William Gosse was an English poet, author and critic. He was strictly brought up in a small Protestant sect, the Plymouth Brethren, but broke away sharply from that faith.

Known for:

Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments (1907)
Gossip in a library
Books on the table (1921)
The Jacobean Poets (1894)
More Books on the Table (1914)

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