Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Irish novelist George Croly.
Last updated on November 19, 2024.
George Croly was an Irish poet, novelist, historian, and Anglican priest. He was rector of St Stephen Walbrook in the City of London from 1835 until his death.
Oh! that fear
When the heart longs to know, what it is death to hear.
All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example.
The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.
Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh;
Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear;
To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh;
Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.
Nature's first great title--mind.
Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind.