“The wish falls often warm upon my heart that I may learn nothing here that I cannot continue in the other world; that I may do nothing here but deeds that will bear fruit in heaven.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 366.
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As quoted in his letter to his father, dated December 6th 1817[citation needed]
“I wish that there was nothing to hold me here, that gravity was a suggestion I could ignore.”
Source: Perdido Street Station
No. 19, st. 2.
Source: More Poems http://www.kalliope.org/vaerktoc.pl?vid=housman/1936 (1936)
1860s, Speech in Independence Hall (1861)
The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 79
Variant: I was taught that I should see mine own sin, and not other men’s sin except it may be for comfort and help of my fellow-Christians.
Context: In that He shewed me that I should sin, I took it nakedly to mine own singular person, for I was none otherwise shewed at that time. But by the high, gracious comfort of our Lord that followed after, I saw that His meaning was for the general Man: that is to say, All-Man; which is sinful and shall be unto the last day. Of which Man I am a member, as I hope, by the mercy of God. For the blessed comfort that I saw, it is large enough for us all. And here was I learned that I should see mine own sin, and not other men’s sins but if it may be for comfort and help of mine even-Christians.
