George Croly famous quotes

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

#Summer #Flower #Jewels

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

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

#Romance #Example

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

#Mind #Titles #Firsts

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

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

#Fear #Heart

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.

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.

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.