“A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by its waves, yet unshaken, immovable; and other eyes will gaze on them for their brief day of life, and then they, too, will close.”

— Henry Liddon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 384.

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British theologian 1829–1890

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