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
Topics: Desire, Desires
Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
—Coventry Patmore
Topics: Adversity
Pride does much and ill, love does little and well.
—Coventry Patmore
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
—Coventry Patmore
Topics: Courage, Patience
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
Topics: Wine
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- William Ernest Henley English Poet
- Francis Thompson English Poet
- John Dryden English Poet
- Alexander Pope English Poet
- William Blake English Poet
- G. K. Chesterton English Journalist
- F. L. Lucas English Literary Critic
- Persius Roman Poet
- Remy de Gourmont French Poet, Writer
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning English Poet
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