“What thousands and millions of recollections there must be in us! And every now and then one of them becomes known to us; and it shows us what spiritual depths are growing in us, what mines of memory.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 407.

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English Unitarian preacher and author 1816–1885

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