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Abraham Coles

(1813–1891) Physician United States

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Abraham Coles was a physician from the United States.

Quick Facts About Abraham Coles

Born: December 26, 1813
Died: May 3, 1891
Nationality: United States
Profession: Physician
Notable works: Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch; Memorial Tributes; Selections From His Works, Some Hitherto Unpublished
Spouse: Caroline Elizabeth Ackerman

About Abraham Coles

Abraham Coles was an American physician, translator, author and poet from New Jersey. He published Dies Irae (1859), Stabat Mater Dolorosa (1865), Stabat Mater Speciosa (1866), Old Gems in New Settings (1866), The Microcosm, The Evangel in Verse (1874) and The Light of the World (1884).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Abraham Coles

Eternity! How know we but we stand On the precipitous and crumbling verge Of Time e'en now, Eternity below?

Crumbling

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“Day of wrath, that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning, All the world to ashes turning.”

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Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.

Dust

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True love is humble, thereby is it known; Girded for service, seeking not its own; Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.

Humble

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On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep Descends the solemn mystery of sleep, Toiling and climbing to the very…

Ascent

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Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, and every star,…

Banner

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Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to…

Apology

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O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of…

Bereft

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Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest…

Death

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Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some…

Born

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We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from…

Age

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The grave, where sets the orb of being, sets To rise, ascend, and culminate above Eternity's horizon evermore.

Eternity

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Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse,…

Caves

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O most illustrious of the days of time! Day full of joy and benison to earth When Thou wast born, sweet Babe…

Angel

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The power to bind and loose to Truth is given: The mouth that speaks it is the mouth of Heaven, The power,…

Given

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None of the prophets old, So lofty or so bold! No form of danger shakes his dauntless breast; In loneliness sublime He…

Breasts

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Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of…

Answers

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I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be,…

Adore

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O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the…

Beautiful

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Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same…

Bidding

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