54 Quotes by Coventry Patmore

You may see the disc of Divinity quite clearly through the smoked glass of humanity, but no otherwise.

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.

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.

Nearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions.

What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God.

Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.

The Spirit of man is like a kite, which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise; the tie that joins it to the earth, the opposing winds of temptation, and the weight of earth-born affections which it carries with it into the sky.

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

The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.