Robert Pollok quotes
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“That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!”
-- Robert PollokSource : Robert Pollok (1855). “The Course of Time: A Poem ...”, p.219
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“Rumour was the messenger Of defamation, and so swift, that none Could be the first to tell an evil tale.”
-- Robert PollokSource : Robert Pollok (1857). “The Course of Time: A Poem”, p.277
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“Maternal love! thou word that sums all bliss, Gives and receives all bliss,-- fullest when most Thou givest! spring-head of all felicity, Deepest when most is drawn! emblem of God! O'erflowing most when greatest numbers drink!”
-- Robert PollokSource : Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1831). “The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok”
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“Friends given by God in mercy and in love; My counsellors, my comforters, and guides; My joy in grief, my second bliss in joy; Companions of my young desires; in doubt My oracles; my wings in high pursuit. Oh! I remember, and will ne'er forget Our meeting spots, our chosen sacred hours; Our burning words, that utter'd all the soul, Our faces beaming with unearthly love;-- Sorrow with sorrow sighing, hope with hope Exulting, heart embracing heart entire.”
-- Robert PollokSource : Robert Pollok, “The Course Of Time. Book V.”
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“All are friends in heaven, all faithful friends, And many friendships in the days of Time Begun, are lasting there and growing still.”
-- Robert PollokSource : Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.186
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“He was the freeman whom the truth made free; Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke; Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul, In spite of fools consulted seriously.”
-- Robert PollokSource : Robert Pollok (1833). “The Course of Time, a Poem: With a Memoir of the Author, an Introductory Notice, a Copious Index, and an Analysis Prefixed to Each Book”, p.74
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“Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin; Most unsubstantial, unessential shade Was earthly fame.”
-- Robert PollokSource : Robert Pollok (1829). “The Course of Time: A Poem, in Ten Books”, p.81
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“But the unfaithful priest, what tongue Enough, shall execrate?”
-- Robert PollokSource : Robert Pollok (1857). “The Course of Time: A Poem”, p.55
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“Of lunacy, Innumerous were the causes; humbled pride, Ambition disappointed, riches lost, And bodily disease, and sorrow, oft By man inflicted on his brother man; Sorrow, that, made the reason drunk, and yet Left much untasted. So the cup was fill'd.”
-- Robert PollokSource : Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.304
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“Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.”
-- Robert PollokSource : Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.356
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“The song Of Heaven is ever new; for daily thus, And nightly, new discoveries are made Of God's unbounded wisdom, power, and love, Which give the understanding larger room, And swell the hymn with ever-growing praise.”
-- Robert PollokSource : Robert Pollok (1868). “The Course of Time ... Twenty-fourth edition. With a memoir of the author”, p.155
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“Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do? As not to know what God and conscience bade, And what they bade not able to obey?”
-- Robert PollokSource : Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.159
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“The Book, this Holy Book, on every line, Mark'd with the seal of high divinity, On every leaf bedew'd with drops of love Divine, and with the eternal heraldry And signature of God Almighty stamp'd From first to last; this ray of sacred light, This lamp, from off the everlasting throne, Mercy took down, and in the night of time Stood, casting on the dark her gracious bow; And evermore beseeching men With tears And earnest sighs, to read, believe and live.”
-- Robert PollokSource : Robert Pollok, “The Course Of Time. Book Ii.”
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“The sun rejoicing round the earth, announced Daily the wisdom, power and love of God. The moon awoke, and from her maiden face, Shedding her cloudy locks, looked meekly forth, And with her virgin stars walked in the heavens-- Walked nightly there, conversing as she walked, Of purity, and holiness, and God.”
-- Robert PollokSource : Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1831). “The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok”
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“Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.”
-- Robert PollokSource : Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.117
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“With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out.”
-- Robert PollokSource : Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.309
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“Sometimes you have to let go of the one you love to find out if there is really something there. Sometimes you won't let go of love. More times love won't let go of you. That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!”
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“Living jewels dropped unstained from heaven.”
-- Robert PollokSource : Robert Pollok (1832). “The Course of Time ... The Eleventh Edition”, p.156
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“Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the darkest hell and the severest woe.”
-- Robert PollokSource : Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.288
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