John Weiss Quotes

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.

“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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