- Love wakes men, once a lifetime each;
- They lift their heavy lids, and look;
- And, lo, what one sweet page can teach
- They read with joy, then shut the book.
COVENTRY PATMORE, "The Revelation"
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.
COVENTRY PATMORE, The Rod, the Root, and the Flower
Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.
COVENTRY PATMORE, The Rod, the Root, and the Flower
The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know."
COVENTRY PATMORE, The Rod, the Root, and the Flower
The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
COVENTRY PATMORE, The Rod, the Root, and the Flower
Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.
COVENTRY PATMORE, The Rod, the Root, and the Flower
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.
COVENTRY PATMORE, The Rod, the Root, and the Flower
It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.
COVENTRY PATMORE, The Rod, the Root, and the Flower
The Spirit of man is like a kite, which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise; the tie that joins it to the earth, the opposing winds of temptation, and the weight of earth-born affections which it carries with it into the sky.
COVENTRY PATMORE, The Rod, the Root, and the Flower
All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.
COVENTRY PATMORE, The Rod, the Root, and the Flower
The ardour chills us which we do not share.
COVENTRY PATMORE, The Rod, the Root, and the Flower
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.
COVENTRY PATMORE, The Rod, the Root, and the Flower
Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.
COVENTRY PATMORE, The Rod, the Root, and the Flower
The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.
COVENTRY PATMORE, The Rod, the Root, and the Flower
Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.
COVENTRY PATMORE, The Rod, the Root, and the Flower
What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God.
COVENTRY PATMORE, The Rod, the Root, and the Flower
Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.
COVENTRY PATMORE, The Rod, the Root, and the Flower
A moment's fruition of a true felicity is enough and eternity not too much.
COVENTRY PATMORE, The Rod, the Root, and the Flower
They who ask for no sign shall have many.
COVENTRY PATMORE, The Rod, the Root, and the Flower
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