George Croly quotes

“The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.”
-- George Croly

Source : 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

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

#Patience Quotes #Art Quotes #Prayer Quotes

“All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example.”
-- George Croly

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

#Romance Quotes #Example Quotes

“Nature's first great title--mind.”
-- George Croly

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

#Mind Quotes #Titles Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“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 Quotes #Order Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Oh! that fear When the heart longs to know, what it is death to hear.”
-- George Croly

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

#Fear Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.462, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

“Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.”

“Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.”

“God’s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the King’s palace and the Bridegroom’s Love.”

“Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.”

Source : Abraham Cowley (1806). “The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806”, p.261

“Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.”

“When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.”

“Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.”

“Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.”

“I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.”