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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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Famous Richard Chenevix Trench Quotes

“If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If, never leaving Thee, we have no need Our wandering spirits back again to lead Into Thy presence, but continued there Like angels standing on the highest stair Of the Sapphire Throne: this were to pray indeed!”

Source: Sabbation: Honor Neale : and Other Poems

“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.”

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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