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Frederick William Robertson Quotes: The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
         

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.


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There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.



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Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.



We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.



God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.



This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.

This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.



Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.

Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.



What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection.

What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection.



To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.



There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.



Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.





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It is easy to get faith into our heads. It is hard to get faith into our bloodstream.



The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.



I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.



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The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.



Wasn't that the way it always was? You didn't know, you couldn't tell, you just let it happen... Perhaps they didn't know themselves. Sometimes the line was very fine.

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Your character holds the key to your trustworthiness.

Your character holds the key to your trustworthiness.



I consider myself to be a relatively helpful person, and there's an interesting line when hope starts to become the way you actually mask or hide from what's really happening.

I consider myself to be a relatively helpful person, and there's an interesting line when hope starts to become the way you actually mask or hide from what's really happening.



Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.



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