Edward Caswall quotes
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“Jesu, the very thought of Thee With sweetness fills the breast.”
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“Days and moments quickly flying, Blend the living with the dead; Soon will you and IÂ be lying Each within our narrow bed.”
-- Edward CaswallSource : Edward Caswall (1858). “The Masque of Mary and Other Poems”, p.220
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“Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this.”
-- Edward CaswallSource : Edward Caswall (1873). “Hymns and Poems, Original and Translated”, p.281
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“I had a nice read on the putt and I said to myself, 'This is for you, Jesus, ' and knocked it in.”
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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.22, 1895.
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“Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.”
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“All's well with thee if thou art in just hands.”
Source : Anne Reeve Aldrich (1892). “Songs about Life, Love and Death”
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“I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.”
Source : Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.134
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“Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.”