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Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 77.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“Ah, wasteful woman, she who may
On her sweet self set her own price,
Knowing man cannot choose but pay,
How has she cheapen'd paradise;
How given for nought her priceless gift,
How spoil'd the bread and spill'd the wine,
Which, spent with due, respective thrift,
Had made brutes men, and men divine.”

Coventry Patmore

Book I, Canto III, III Unthrift.
The Angel In The House (1854)

“Having my law the seventh time disobey'd,
I struck him, and dismiss'd
With hard words and unkiss'd,
—His Mother, who was patient, being dead.”

Coventry Patmore

The Toys, p. 50.
The Unknown Eros and Other Poems (1877)

“The flower of olden sanctities.”

Coventry Patmore

1867, p. 123.
The Unknown Eros and Other Poems (1877)

“The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon’s height
Is not so sweet and white
As the most heretofore sin-spotted Soul
That darts to its delight
Straight from the absolution of a faithful fight.”

Coventry Patmore

Peace, p. 28.
The Unknown Eros and Other Poems (1877)

“Life is not life at all without delight.”

Coventry Patmore

Victory in Defeat, p. 36.
The Unknown Eros and Other Poems (1877)

Coventry Patmore Quotes about love

“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.”

Coventry Patmore

Book I, Canto VIII, II The Revelation.
The Angel In The House (1854)

“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!”

Coventry Patmore

Book I, Canto VI, IV A Riddle Solved.
The Angel In The House (1854)

“Strong passions mean weak will, and he
Who truly knows the strength and bliss
Which are in love, will own with me
No passion but a virtue 'tis.”

Coventry Patmore

Book I, Canto III, II Love a Virtue.
The Angel In The House (1854)

Coventry Patmore Quotes

“To have nought
Is to have all things without care or thought!”

Coventry Patmore

Legem Tuam Dilexi, p. 47.
The Unknown Eros and Other Poems (1877)

“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 prevail
When none cares whether it prevail or not.”

Coventry Patmore

Magna est Veritas, p. 62.
The Unknown Eros and Other Poems (1877)

“"I saw you take his kiss!" "'Tis true."
"O, modesty!" "'Twas strictly kept:
He thought me asleep; at least, I knew
He thought I thought he thought I slept."”

Coventry Patmore

Book II, Canto VIII, III The Kiss.
The Angel In The House (1854)

“A woman is a foreign land.”

Coventry Patmore

Book II. Canto IX, II The Foreign Land.
The Angel In The House (1854)

“None thrives for long upon the happiest dream.”

Coventry Patmore

Tired Memory, p. 95.
The Unknown Eros and Other Poems (1877)

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

Coventry Patmore

Book I, Canto VIII, III The Spirit's Epochs.
The Angel In The House (1854)

“Modern Philosophers, that wisely keep to sandy shallows, like shrimps, for fear of bigger fish.”

Coventry Patmore

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 76.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“Life's warp of Heaven and woof of Hell.”

Coventry Patmore

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 75.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“The enthusiasm for goodness which shows that it is not the habit of the mind.”

Coventry Patmore

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 75.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“Nothing remains with man unless it is insinuated with some delight.”

Coventry Patmore

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 74.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“Holy indignation is a proof that we should do the same thing ourselves, and easy tears are a certain sign of a hard heart.”

Coventry Patmore

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 74.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“As the Word of God is God's image, so the word of man is his image, and "a man is known by his speech."”

Coventry Patmore

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 72.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“The cloud that is light to Israel is darkness to Egypt.”

Coventry Patmore

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 71.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“Nothingness is capacity, and night the opportunity of light.”

Coventry Patmore

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 68.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“Good people and religious are the first to say, "He hath a devil" of any one whose way is widely different from and maybe greatly higher than their own.”

Coventry Patmore

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 66.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

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

Coventry Patmore

Aurea Dicta XLIV, p. 15.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

“Ther are not two sides to any question that really concerns a man, but only one, and this side only a fool can fail to see if he tries.”

Coventry Patmore

Aurea Dicta XX, p. 8.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

“If you try to simplify or pare off the superfluous from the minds and speech of most men, you will find that nothing is left. There is no simplicity in them, for there is no truth; truth and simplicity being, as Aquinas says, the same thing.”

Coventry Patmore

Aurea Dicta VI, p. 4.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

“The Catholic Church itself has been nearly killed by the infection of the puritanism of the Reformation.”

Coventry Patmore

Magna Moralia XLIX, p. 201.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

“Toleration, as it is now widely preached, may be a very one-sided bargain. It will not do to let falsehood and moral idiocy say to truth and honesty, "I will tolerate you if you will tolerate me."”

Coventry Patmore

Magna Moralia XLII, p. 193.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

“God is the only reality, and we are real only so far as we are in His order, and He is in us.”

Coventry Patmore

Magna Moralia XXII, p. 172.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

“The difference between a commonly well-behaved woman and a high-bred lady consists in very small things—but what a difference it is!”

Coventry Patmore

Magna Moralia XI, p. 156.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

“The beauty in her lover's eyes
Was admiration of her own.”

Coventry Patmore

Book II, Canto II, III Lais and Lucretia.
The Angel In The House (1854)

“What seems to us for us is true.
The planet has no proper light,
And yet when Venus is in view,
No primal star is half so bright.”

Coventry Patmore

Book II, Canto I, V Perspective.
The Angel In The House (1854)

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