Richard B. Garnett famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Life without Love is as a flower without fragrance.
-- Richard B. Garnett

#Love #Flower #Fragrance
Trust Love, nor fear to soar upon his track. The wings that bore to Heaven will bear thee back.
-- Richard B. Garnett

#Love #Wings #Track
Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.
-- Richard B. Garnett

#Hypocrisy #Desire #Veils
Would the atheist continue such, let him beware how he admits Love into his breast: for God will surely come along with him.
-- Richard B. Garnett

#Atheist #Atheism #Gods Will
Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.
-- Richard B. Garnett

#Art #Needs #Littles
It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.
-- Richard B. Garnett

#Art #Mistress #Wonder
Were Love exempt from the militations of Necessity, he were greater than God and the World.
-- Richard B. Garnett

#World
Thou canst not pray to God without praying to Love, but mayest pray to Love without praying to God.
-- Richard B. Garnett

#Praying #Praying To God
Love is God's essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power.
-- Richard B. Garnett

#Love Is #Essence #His Love
The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love.
-- Richard B. Garnett

#Children #Three #World
As the bud a leaf, so at last the thought becomes a word.
-- Richard B. Garnett

#Lasts #Bud #Leafs
Love is wont to visit Man in the company of Desire; but Woman by himself.
-- Richard B. Garnett

#Women #Love Is #Desire
If Pity come as Pity, bid her stay; But if in guise of Love, chase her away.
-- Richard B. Garnett

#Pity
Passion is Love's blind guide, but the only one he hath.
-- Richard B. Garnett

#Passion #Blind #Guides
Wail not too wildly for expiring Love: The Love that dies was never quite alive.
-- Richard B. Garnett

#Love #Never Quit #Alive
Then is Love blest, when from the cup of the body he drinks the wine of the soul.
-- Richard B. Garnett

#Love #Wine #Soul
In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.
-- Richard B. Garnett

#Love #Atheist #Nun

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