Coventry Patmore Quotes

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.

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

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

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

Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.

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

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.

A woman is a foreign land.

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

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

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

Uncommon things must be said in common words.

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

The ardour chills us which we do not share.

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

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

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."

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

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

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.

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.

Life is not life at all without delight.

Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!

They who ask for no sign shall have many.

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

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.

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

None thrives for long upon the happiest dream.

All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.

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

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.