George Croly Quotes

• The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.

  George Croly

  Summer, Flower, June

  George Croly, Richard DAGLEY (1822). “Gems, principally from the antique, drawn and etched by Richard Dagley ... With illustrations in verse, by the Rev. G. Croly”, p.34

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• Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh;
  Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear;
  To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh;
  Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.

  George Croly

  Patience, Art, Prayer

  George Croly (1851). “Scenes from scripture: with other poems”, p.13

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• All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example.

  George Croly

  Romance, Example

  George Croly (1840). “A memoir of the political life of ... Edmund Burke”

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• Nature's first great title--mind.

  George Croly

  Mind, Titles, Firsts

  Richard Dagley, George Croly (1822). “Gems: Principally from the Antique”, p.23

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• Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind.

  George Croly

  Heart, Order, Mind

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• Oh! that fear
  When the heart longs to know, what it is death to hear.

  George Croly

  Fear, Heart, Knows

  George Croly (1830). “The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Croly”, p.209

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