"There is no sorrow like a love denied. Nor any joy like love that has its will."

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Source : Richard Hovey (1907). “Launcelot and Guenevere: The marriage of Guenevere”

Richard Hovey

#Lost Love Quotes #Joy Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.”
“By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.”
“The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes.”
“What is a church?Â—Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.”
“Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.”
“I don't think we have learnt to keep within the limits. They are quite elastic but there is a point beyond which they will break and then you will get a complete and massive change in the climate in which the survival of human species might not be compatible.”

Source : "Michael Meacher MP: humans only have 200-300 years left on earth". Interview with Tom Levitt, www.theecologist.org. July 22, 2010.
“I exist in the world and live in my art.”
“...when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. 'If you board the wrong train,' he said, 'it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.”

Source : Eric Metaxas (2011). “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy”, p.136, Thomas Nelson Inc

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