Richard B. Garnett Quotes

• Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Hypocrisy, Desire, Veils

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• The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Children, World And Love, Three

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• In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Love, Atheist, Nun

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• Life without Love is as a flower without fragrance.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Love, Flower, Fragrance

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• Love is God's essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Love Is, Essence, His Love

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• Were Love exempt from the militations of Necessity, he were greater than God and the World.

  Richard B. Garnett

  World, Greater

  "De Flagello myrteo". Book by Richard B. Garnett, 1905.

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• As the bud a leaf, so at last the thought becomes a word.

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  Bud, Lasts, Leafs

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• It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.

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  Art, Mistress, Wonder

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• If Pity come as Pity, bid her stay; But if in guise of Love, chase her away.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Pity, Guise, Ifs

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• Wail not too wildly for expiring Love: The Love that dies was never quite alive.

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  Love, Alive, Never Quit

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• Trust Love, nor fear to soar upon his track. The wings that bore to Heaven will bear thee back.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Love, Wings, Track

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• Would the atheist continue such, let him beware how he admits Love into his breast: for God will surely come along with him.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Atheist, Atheism, Gods Will

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• Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Art, Needs, Littles

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• Love is wont to visit Man in the company of Desire; but Woman by himself.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Women, Love Is, Desire

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• Then is Love blest, when from the cup of the body he drinks the wine of the soul.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Love, Wine, Soul

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• Thou canst not pray to God without praying to Love, but mayest pray to Love without praying to God.

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  Praying, Praying To God

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• Passion is Love's blind guide, but the only one he hath.

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  Passion, Blind, Guides

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