Frasi di Frederick William Faber

Padre Frederick William Faber è stato un presbitero, teologo e poeta inglese.

✵ 28. Giugno 1814 – 26. Novembre 1863
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Frederick William Faber: Frasi in inglese

“The world is growing old;
Who would not be at rest and free
Where love is never cold?”

Paradise.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“For right is right, since God is God,
And right the day must win;
To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sin.”

The Right Must Win. Compare: "That right was right, and there he would abide", George Crabbe, Tales, Tale xv, "The Squire and the Priest".
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Love's secret is to be always doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such little ones.”

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 386.

“Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.”

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 314.

“The sea, unmated creature, tired and lone,
Makes on its desolate sands eternal moan.”

The Sorrowful World.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning.”

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 363.

“Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.”

The Sorrowful World.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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