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Richard Chenevix Trench Quotes

Prayer is not getting man’s will done in heaven, but getting God’s will done on earth. It is not overcoming God’s reluctance but laying hold of God’s willingness Picture Quote #1

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason Picture Quote #1

As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things Picture Quote #1

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit Picture Quote #1

Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face Picture Quote #1

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past Picture Quote #1

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There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it Picture Quote #1

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved Picture Quote #1

Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good; and many a good book has remained unwritten... because there floated before the mind’s eye the ideal of a better or a best Picture Quote #1

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name Picture Quote #1

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The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Prayer is not getting man’s will done in heaven, but getting God’s will done on earth. It is not overcoming God’s reluctance but laying hold of God’s willingness (Richard Chenevix Trench Quotes) Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason (Richard Chenevix Trench Quotes) As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things (Richard Chenevix Trench Quotes) Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit (Richard Chenevix Trench Quotes) Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face (Richard Chenevix Trench Quotes) The present is only intelligible in the light of the past (Richard Chenevix Trench Quotes) There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it (Richard Chenevix Trench Quotes) Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved (Richard Chenevix Trench Quotes) Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew (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 (Richard Chenevix Trench Quotes) The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good; and many a good book has remained unwritten... because there floated before the mind’s eye the ideal of a better or a best (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 (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? (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 (Richard Chenevix Trench Quotes)