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James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

James Martineau

Grief is only the memory of widowed affection.

Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely, perhaps, are discerned at all without them.

The agnosticism of doubt is as far from the agnosticism of devotion as blindness for want of vision from blindness through excess of light.

We do not believe immortality because we have proved it, but we for ever try to prove it because we believe it.

When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time and its dome of ages becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever.