Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton Quotes

• It's not the lack of ability or opportunity that holds you back; it is only a lack of confidence in yourself.

  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

  Confidence, Opportunity, Ability

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• The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize.

  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

  Life, Lying, Struggle

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• Love will always be the most powerful force.

  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

  Love, Powerful, Most Powerful

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• My exit is the result of too many entrees.

  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

  Exit, Results, Last Words

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• They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear.

  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

  Prayer, Soul, Bears

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• They who have steeped their souls in prayer
  Can every anguish calmly bear.

  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

  Spiritual, Bears, Anguish

  "The Sayings of Rabia" by Richard Monckton Milnes, iv,

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• A man's best things are nearest him,
  Lie close about his feet.

  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

  Life, Lying, Men

  Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) (1838). “The poems of Richard Monckton Milnes”, p.100

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• Grand Thoughts that never can be wearied out,
  Showing the unreality of Time.

  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

  Unreality

  Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) (1838). “The poems of Richard Monckton Milnes”, p.131

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• I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still.

  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

  Flow, Wheels, Sides

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• He, who for Love has undergone
  The worst that can befall,
  Is happier thousand-fold than one,
  Who never loved at all.

  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

  Life, Worst

  "The poems of Richard Monckton Milnes".

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• The beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard.

  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

  Heart, Sound, Heard

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• But on and up, where Nature's heart Beats strong amid the hills.

  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

  Nature, Strong, Heart

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• Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares.

  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

  Feelings, Instinct, Great Feelings

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