The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Richard Chenevix Trench

4 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

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..— filed under Borrowing
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.— filed under Life
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.— filed under Religion
When it was become an abhorring even to them that had loved it best.— filed under Abhorrence
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