“My God, I would not live
Save that I think this gross hard-seeming world
Is our misshaping vision of the Powers
Behind the world, that make our griefs our gains.”
The Sisters, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson 213
British poet laureate 1809–1892Related quotes
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Nonconformity (1953/1996)
Context: To see life steadily, and see it whole, as a creature of the deep sees it, from below. Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards.
2009, A New Beginning (June 2009)
“God save our gracious king!
Long live our noble king!
God save the king!”
"God Save the King" (1730).
Source: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
On Queen Elizabeth I of England, in 1587; reported in Emil Reich, Woman Through the Ages: Volume 2 (1908), p. 38. Alternately reported without the phrase "each other" and ending with "would have ruled the whole world".
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1950s, Rediscovering Lost Values (1954)
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)