FWF. W. Faber

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F. W. Faber

Life dates: 1814 AD — 1863 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1838 AD

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

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02c. 1838 AD

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

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03c. 1838 AD

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

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04c. 1838 AD

The love of God is broader than the measure of man's mind.

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05c. 1838 AD

There is no place where earth's sorrows / Are more felt than up in heaven; / There is no place where earth's failings / Have such kindly judgment given.

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06c. 1838 AD

Thou dost not strive, O Sun, but, meek and still, / Thou dost the type of Jesus best fulfil, / A noiseless revelation in the sky.

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07c. 1838 AD

Christian! thy dream is now—it was not then: O, it were strange if childhood were a dream. Strife, and the world, are dreams: to wakeful men Childhood and home as jealous angels seem: Like shapes and hues that play in clouds at even, They have but shifted from Thee into Heaven!

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