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A man may read Plato without clearly comprehending much of what he means. He cannot read him without becoming, in some degree, a changed man.

— Coventry Patmore The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

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Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

He is irrational, however well he may be able to reason, who does not clearly see that good is good and truth truth.

Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

Science is a line, art a superficies, and life, or the knowledge of God, a solid.

The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.

The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

As the Word of God is God's image, so the word of man is his image, and "a man is known by his speech."

Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

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