Coventry Patmore: Thing

Coventry Patmore was English poet. Explore interesting quotes on thing.

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“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)

“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)

“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)

“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 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)