Rspca Coventry Quotes

Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes. ~ Coventry Patmore

A woman is a foreign land. ~ Coventry Patmore

If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance: a sphere in which the soul says: 'Shall I, a gnat which dances in Thy ray, Dare to be reverent?' ~ Coventry Patmore

Smile, I do as I march an inch further towards
my funeral. My broken skeleton calls for its
tomb beneath Coventry cathedral, where I can
hear the tunes of saintly people. ~ Lavinia Valeriana

Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it. ~ Coventry Patmore

I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers. ~ Jerry Dammers

I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there. ~ Kirsty Coventry

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

Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving. ~ Coventry Patmore

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light. ~ Coventry Patmore

The moods of love are like the wind,
And none knows whence or why they rise. ~ Coventry Patmore

Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod. The winter comes: the frozen rut Is bound with silver bars; the white drift heaps against the hut; and night is pierced with stars. ~ Coventry Patmore

I drew my bride, beneath the moon,Across my threshold; happy hour!But, ah, the walk that afternoonWe saw the water-flags in flower! ~ Coventry Patmore

O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One. ~ Coventry Patmore

People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It's really important. ~ Kirsty Coventry

Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards ... the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill ... tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins. ~ Joseph Goebbels

A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive. ~ Coventry Patmore

Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the war. Not even Hiroshima and Nagasaki, suffering the smashing blows of nuclear explosions, could match the utter hell of Hamburg. ~ Martin Caidin

To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light. ~ Coventry Patmore

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century. ~ Coventry Patmore

The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn. ~ Coventry Patmore

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance. ~ Kirsty Coventry

Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances. ~ Coventry Patmore

The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O. ~ Coventry Patmore

Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book. ~ Coventry Patmore

Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done! ~ Coventry Patmore

How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life! ~ Coventry Patmore

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years. ~ Coventry Patmore

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 prevailWhen none cares whether it prevail or not. ~ Coventry Patmore

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. ~ Coventry Patmore

The Toys

My little Son, who look'd from thoughtful eyes
And moved and spoke in quiet grown-up wise,
Having my law the seventh time disobey'd,
I struck him, and dismiss'd
With hard words and unkiss'd,
- His Mother, who was patient, being dead.
Then, fearing lest his grief should hinder sleep,
I visited his bed,
But found him slumbering deep,
With darken'd eyelids, and their lashes yet
From his late sobbing wet.
And I, with moan,
Kissing away his tears, left others of my own;
For, on a table drawn beside his head,
He had put, within his reach,
A box of counters and a red-vein'd stone,
A piece of glass abraded by the beach,
And six or seven shells,
A bottle with bluebells,
And two French copper coins, ranged there with careful art,
To comfort his sad heart.
So when that night I pray'd
To God, I wept, and said:
Ah, when at last we lie with trancèd breath,
Not vexing Thee in death,
And Thou rememberest of what toys
We made our joys,
How weakly understood
Thy great commanded good,
Then, fatherly not less
Than I whom Thou hast moulded from the clay,
Thou'lt leave Thy wrath, and say,
'I will be sorry for their childishness. ~ Coventry Patmore

I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living. ~ Brendan Coyle

All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak. ~ Coventry Patmore

She was tougher than she looked, stronger than she believed, and more important to him than she knew.
-from The Sweetest Mistake, to be released in June, 2018 ~ Susan Coventry

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

Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance. ~ Coventry Patmore

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

The Coventry School Committee has been ahead of the curve in addressing the nutrition needs of our students. This committee is an extension of a process begun more than a year ago to ensure the foods we offer had high nutritional value. ~ Michael Reeves

The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight. ~ Coventry Patmore

There are younger, stronger swimmers coming up and they are hungry. I can't influence what they do, I only know what I can do and I know how greedy I am to defend my title. ~ Kirsty Coventry

All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence. ~ Coventry Patmore