A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.
Coventry PatmoreOne fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.
Coventry PatmoreTo 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.
Coventry PatmoreLet me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances.
Coventry PatmoreThen sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod. The winter comes: the frozen rut Is bound with silver bars; the white drift heaps against the hut; and night is pierced with stars.
Coventry PatmoreEvery evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
Coventry PatmoreFortunately 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."
Coventry PatmoreUncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.
Coventry PatmoreKind 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!
Coventry PatmoreThe more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
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