Trench Quotes. James Wood, comp. 1899. Dictionary of Quotations

James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Trench


A single word is often a concentrated poem, a little grain of pure gold, capable of being beaten out into a broad extent of gold-leaf.	1
Evil, like a rolling stone upon a mountain-top, / A child may first impel, a giant cannot stop.	2
God asks not what, but whence, thy work is: from the fruit / He turns His eye away, to prove the inmost root.	3
Language is fossil poetry.	4
Proverbs have been always dear to the true intellectual aristocracy of a nation.	5
Proverbs have pleased not one nation only, but many, so that they have made themselves a home in the most different lands.	6
Proverbs have, not a few of them, come down to us from remotest antiquity, borne safely upon the waters of that great stream of time which has swallowed so much beneath its waves.	7
Proverbs please the people, and have pleased them for ages.	8
Proverbs possess so vigorous a principle of life, as to have maintained their ground, ever new and ever young, through all the centuries of a nation’s existence.	9
When thou hast thanked thy God for every blessing sent, / What time will then remain for murmurs or lament?	10