Richard Chenevix Trench Quotes
For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.
Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth.
Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness.
None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.
We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste.
The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.
Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.
Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew.
There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.
All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.
Oh seize the instant time; you never will With water once passed by impel the mill.
The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?
Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed,Not all who fail have therefor worked in vain.There is no failure for the good and brave.
