“It is not in the bright, happy day, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be seen shining in their long, long distances. And it is in sorrow — the night of the soul — that we see farthest, and know ourselves natives of infinity, and sons and daughters of the Most High.”

— William Mountford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 556.

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English Unitarian preacher and author 1816–1885

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