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Frederick William Robertson

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


— Frederick William Robertson


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Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.


— Frederick William Robertson


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


— Frederick William Robertson


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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.


— Frederick William Robertson


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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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To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.


— Frederick William Robertson


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The questioning spirit was first aroused in him by the disappointing fruit of evangelical doctrine which he found in Cheltenham as well as by intimacy with men of varied reading. - Groningen J. Further reading
Beardsley Christina.

Frederick William Robertson (3 February 1816 – 15 August 1853) known as Robertson of Brighton was an English divine. He did not find Oxford wholly congenial to his intensely earnest spirit but he read hard and as he afterwards said "Plato Aristotle Butler Thucydides Sterne Jonathan Edwards; passed like the iron atoms of the blood into my mental constitution. His sensitive nature was subjected to extreme suffering arising mainly from the opposition aroused by his sympathy with the revolutionary ideas of the 1848 epoch.

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