James Montgomery Quotes
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Prayer moves the arm Which moves the world, And brings salvation down.
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To-morrow — oh, 'twill never be, If we should live a thousand years! Our time is all to-day, to-day, The same, though changed; and while it flies With still small voice the moments say: "To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise.
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The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky.
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Hymns should have unity, graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts, a conscious progress, a sense of completeness and be easily understood.
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Two roses on one slender spray In sweet communion grew, Together hailed the morning ray And drank the evening dew.
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The tulip's petals shine in dew, All beautiful, but none alike.
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There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found, They softly lie and sweetly sleep Low in the ground.
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The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.
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While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn.
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Time is eternity begun.
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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.
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Songs of praise the angels sang, Heav'n with alleluias rang, when creation was begun, when God spoke and it was done.
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There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky.
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Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.
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When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies).
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Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.
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Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years.
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Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.
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Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past.
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Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand, And on the sun's noon-glory gaze; With eye like his, thy lids expand, And fringe their disk with golden rays: Though fix'd on earth, in darkness rooted there, Light is thy element, thy dwelling air, Thy prospect heaven.
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Gashed with honourable scars,Low in Glory's lap they lie;Though they fell, they fell like stars,Streaming splendour through the sky.
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If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!
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Here hyacinths of heavenly blue, shook their rich tresses to the morn.
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Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near.
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Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?
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When to the cross I turn my eyes,And rest on Calvary,O Lamb of God, my sacrifice,I must remember Thee.
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Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?
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Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.
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Baptize the nations! far and nigh,The triumphs of the cross recordThe name of Jesus glorify,Till every people call Him Lord.
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Tis human actions paint the chart of time.
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