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Richard Chenevix Trench (September 9, 1807 - March 28, 1886) was a renowned British poet. Known for his unique poetic style and elegant language, Trench's works have had a profound influence on subsequent poets.

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All Ifs Language Has Beens Love Men Might Prayer Amber Earth Embedded Longing Our Lives Past Sin Speak Speech Subtle Sweet Thee Thousand

Famous Richard Chenevix Trench Quotes

“Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew.”

Ifs Knows Self Might Loathe

Book:The Story of Justin Martyr: And Other Poems

Source: The Story of Justin Martyr: And Other Poems

“Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.”

Has Beens Might Language Communication Genius Thousand Ten Passing Passings Fixed Subtle Flash Lightning Might Have Been Arrested Embedded Amber Perishing

Book:On the Study of Words Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training-school, Winchester by Richard Chenevix Trench

Source: On the Study of Words Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training-school, Winchester by Richard Chenevix Trench

“There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.”

Might Courses Mistake Known Our Lives Lessons Committed Saved Quotations

Book:On the lessons in Proverbs: being the substance of lectures delivered to young men's societies at Portsmouth and elsewhere; from the Second London edition, rev. and enlarged

Source: On the lessons in Proverbs: being the substance of lectures delivered to young men's societies at Portsmouth and elsewhere; from the Second London edition, rev. and enlarged