William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
No. 112
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
“A man who is not poor nor ill, nor about to be stoned to death, must not distress himself if he does not feel all through his life what faith Stephen had only in his last moments.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 221.
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Context: And the angel's body was bared, and he was clothed in light so that eye could not look on him; and his voice grew louder, as though it came not from him but from heaven above. And the angel said:
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