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Richard Chenevix Trench Quotes: Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.
         

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.


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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.



Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face.

Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face.



Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.



Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.

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.

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.





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The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.



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Pray we for the Clergy; that they may rightly divide, that they may rightly walk; that while they teach others, themselves may learn.



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The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.




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