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Richard Chenevix Trench was an Anglican archbishop and poet.

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

“What question can be here? Your own true heart
Must needs advise you of the only part:
That may be claim'd again which was but lent,
And should be yielded with no discontent,
Nor surely can we find herein a wrong,
That it was left us to enjoy it long.”

Richard Chenevix Trench

The Lent Jewels; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 81.

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

Richard Chenevix Trench

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.”

Richard Chenevix Trench

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.”

Richard Chenevix Trench

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.”

Richard Chenevix Trench

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.”

Richard Chenevix Trench

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.”

Richard Chenevix Trench

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

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

Richard Chenevix Trench

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

“We kneel, how weak; we rise, how full of power!
Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong,
Or others — that we are not always strong,
That we are ever overborne with care,
That we should ever weak or heartless be,
Anxious or troubled, when with us is prayer,
And joy and strength and courage are with Thee?”

Richard Chenevix Trench

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 467.

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