Richard Chenevix Trench Quotes

Richard Chenevix Trench was an Anglican archbishop and poet.

✵ 9. September 1807 – 28. March 1886
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Famous Richard Chenevix Trench Quotes

“Oh seize the instant time; you never will
With waters once passed by impel the mill.”

Poems (Ed. 1865), p. 303. Proverbs, Turkish and Persian.

“Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident,
It is the very place God meant for thee;
And should'st thou there small room for action see,
Do not for this give room for discontent.”

Sonnet, The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 190-92.

“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.”

Attributed to Trench by Prof. Connington; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 253.

“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.”

Notes on the Parables, Prodigal Son; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 321.

“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.”

To.——, The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 455.

“It was Lazarus faith, not his poverty, which brought him into Abraham's bosom.”

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 455.

“As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.”

Study of Words; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907.

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