Quotes by John Keble - Page 1

Give us grace to listen well.
John Keble / Poet
Giving
Grace
Listening
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Time's waters will not ebb nor stay.
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Time
Water
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Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
John Keble / Poet
Peace
Angel
Firsts
Peace And Tranquility
Angels
First Thing
Sang
The First Thing
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The voice that breathed o'er Eden, That earliest wedding day.
John Keble / Poet
Wedding
Eden
Love And Marriage
Voice
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When the shore is won at last, Who will count the billow past?
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Success
Lasts
Past
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And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.
John Keble / Poet
Helping
Prayer
Praying
Pray
Nearly
Day Every Day Live
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God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.
John Keble / Poet
Humility
Lifts
True Humility
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Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near.
John Keble / Poet
Jesus
Night
Soul
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Thou art the Sun of other days. They shine by giving back the rays.
John Keble / Poet
Art
Easter
Giving
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If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish
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Church
England
Would Be
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The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask.
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Common
Ought
Tasks
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Sweet is the smile of home; the mutual look when hearts are of each other sure.
John Keble / Poet
Home
Heart
Sweet
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As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.
John Keble / Poet
Brother
Contact
Fire
Poet
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For as fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.
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Brother
Fire
Mind
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When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.
John Keble / Poet
Finding Yourself
Self Pity
Way
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The watchful mother tarries nigh Though sleep have closed her infant's eye, For should he wake, and find her gone.
John Keble / Poet
Eye
Mother
Sleep
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Pride of the dewy morning, The swain's experienced eye From thee takes timely warning. Nor trusts the gorgeous sky.
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Morning
Eye
Pride
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Blest are the pure in heart, for they shall see our God. The secret of the Lord is theirs; Their soul is Christ's abode.
John Keble / Poet
Heart
Secret
Soul
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Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away.
John Keble / Poet
Death
Agony
Father
Soul
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Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.
John Keble / Poet
Age
Men
Sweet
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Abide with me from morn to eve, / For without Thee I cannot live: / Abide with me when night is nigh. / For without Thee I dare not die.
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Abiding
Night
Thee
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Sun of my soul, thou Savior dear, It is not night if thou be near. Oh, may no earthborn cloud arise To hide thee from thy servant's eyes.
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Clouds
Eye
Night
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New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.
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Life
Morning
Sleep
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The deeds we do, the words we say,Into still air they seem to fleet;We count them ever past;But they shall last -In the dread judgment theyAnd we shall meet.
John Keble / Poet
Air
Deeds
Past
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Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain.
John Keble / Poet
Gains
Looks
Triumph
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Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.
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Islands
Sight
Years
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Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.
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Heart
Heaven
Solitude
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Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing that a sinner can reasonably hope for.
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Blessing
Keys
Waiting
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Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out. Every leaf in every nook, Every wave in every brook, Chanting with a solemn voice Minds us of our better choice.
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Morning
Light
Voice
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