Coventry Patmore famous quotes

Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Receiving #Asking

To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Courage #Light #Long

What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Eye #Shadow #Lovers

The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Promise #Barns #Wheat

Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Art #Lines

The ardour chills us which we do not share.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Chill #Share

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

#Mean #Men #Wind

It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Darkness #Blind

The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Care #Agnostic #Ancient

Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!
-- Coventry Patmore

#Siege #Youth #Courtesy

Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Firsts #Creation #Fountain

A moment's fruition of a true felicity is enough and eternity not too much.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Fruition #Too Much #Moments

A woman is a foreign land.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Land

I drew my bride, beneath the moon,Across my threshold; happy hour!But, ah, the walk that afternoonWe saw the water-flags in flower!
-- Coventry Patmore

#Flower #Moon #Water

None thrives for long upon the happiest dream.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Dream #Long #Thrive

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 prevailWhen none cares whether it prevail or not.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Lying #Done #World

To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!
-- Coventry Patmore

#Care

The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Dream #Sweet #Sunshine

How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life!
-- Coventry Patmore

#Music #Kissing #Light

They who ask for no sign shall have many.
-- Coventry Patmore

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

#Women #Vanity #Giving

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

#Love #Sunshine #Men

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.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Hatred #World #May

Ah, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing man cannot choose but pay, How has she cheapened paradise; How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine, Which, spent with due respective thrift, Had made brutes men and men divine.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Sweet #Wine #Men

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

#Desire #Incredibles #Willing

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.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Time #Stars #Sleep

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Wise #Adversity #Evil

Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."
-- Coventry Patmore

#Strength #Believe #Men

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Wise #Truth #Men

Nearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Motivational #Fool #Conviction

Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Faith #Believe #Eye

O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Heart #Men #Remember

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

#Love #Sweet #Book

Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.
-- Coventry Patmore

#God #Mistake #Five Senses

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

#Book #Reality #Thinking

The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Wings #Beats #Midges

A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Doe #Different #Saint

All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Self #Reason #Ends

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Writing #Common #Century

Life is not life at all without delight.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Delight #Life Is

The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Life #Wind #Mood