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"Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom."
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Coventry PatmoreHoly indignation is a proof that we should do the same thing ourselves — Coventry Patmore
"Holy indignation is a proof that we should do the same thing ourselves, and easy tears are a certain sign of a hard heart."
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Coventry Patmore
Coventry Patmore
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Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was an English poet and literary critic. He is best known for his book of poetry The Angel in the House (1854), a narrative poem about the Victorian ideal of a happy marriage.
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"I vowed unvarying faith, and she To whom in full I pay that vow, Rewards me with variety Which men who change can never know."
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"Nothing remains with man unless it is insinuated with some delight."
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"The Catholic Church itself has been nearly killed by the infection of the puritanism of the Reformation."
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"The cloud that is light to Israel is darkness to Egypt."
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"The dull and heavy hate of fools."
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