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9 Quotes for 'Bishop Reginald Heber' in the Database.
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Bishop Reginald Heber Quotes
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No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,
Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.
Majestic silence.
Topic: Architecture
Source: Palestine (l. 163)
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Then on! then on! where duty leads,
My course be onward still.
Topic: Duty
Source: Journal
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Failed the bright promise of your early day?
Topic: Failure
Source: Palestine (l. 113)
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single
excuse.
Topic: Failure
Source: Palestine (l. 113)
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Before, beside us, and above
The firefly lights his lamp of love.
Topic: Fireflies
Source: Tour Through Ceylon
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The heathen in his blindness
Bows down to wood and stone.
Topic: Gods
Source: Missionary Hymn
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Death rides on every passing breeze,
He lurks in every flower.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: At a Funeral (st. 3)
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When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.
Topic: Spring
Source: Hymn for Seventh Sunday after Trinity
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What though the spicy breezes
Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;
Though every prospect pleases,
And only man is vile;
In vain with lavish kindness
The gifts of God are strown;
The heathen in his blindness
Bows down to wood and stone.
Topic: Worship
Source: From Greenland's Icy Mountains--Missionary Hymn
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