Frederick William Robertson Quotes

English - Clergyman | February 3, 1816 - August 15, 1853

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Frederick William Robertson

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Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

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LifeEducationChildUniverseOnly

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Frederick William Robertson

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We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

Frederick William Robertson

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It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

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Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.

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LoveLove IsTwoUnionBetween

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

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Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

Frederick William Robertson

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Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

Frederick William Robertson

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

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WorkFailureGodSacrificeWorld

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.

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No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

Frederick William Robertson

GoodGreatHappyThroughInward

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