“Not every hour, nor every day, perhaps, can generous wishes ripen into kind actions; but there is not a moment that cannot be freighted with prayer.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 470.

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English Unitarian preacher and author 1816–1885

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