Christina Rossetti Quotes

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• Silence is more musical than any song.
• O passing angel, speed me with a song, a melody of heaven to reach my heart and rouse me to the race and make me…
• Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...
• To me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are bound to understand…
• I believe because I am told to believe ... My faith is faith; it is not evolved out of argumentation, nor does it seek the…
• Flowers preach to us if we will hear.
• For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.
• Not as she is, but as she fills his dream
• Obedience is the fruit of faith.
• A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.
• Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth.
• For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.
• Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
• Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.
• The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back....
• The Bourne Underneath the growing grass, Underneath the living flowers, Deeper than the sound of showers: There we shall not count the hours By the…
• And may you happy live, And long us bless.
• O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.
• What is the beginning? Love. What is the course. Love still. What the goal. The goal is love.
• Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens A rose today. But you will ask in vain Tomorrow what it is; and yesterday It was the…

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