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John Weiss was an American author and clergyman, an advocate of women's rights, as well as a noted abolitionist. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. June 1818 – 9. March 1879
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John Weiss Quotes

“The truest worship is a life;
All dreaming we resign;
We lay our offerings at Thy feet, —
Our lives, O God, are Thine!”

John Weiss

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 118.

Life , God , Dreams

“Irony is jesting hidden behind gravity. Humor is gravity concealed behind the jest.”

John Weiss

Wit, Humor, and Shakespeare: Twelve essays (1876), p. 63.

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