“Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 45.

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American educationalist and theologian 1802–1887

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