“Up, then, with speed, and work;
Fling ease and self away —
This is no time for thee to sleep —
Up, watch, and work, and pray!”

— Horatius Bonar

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 206.

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British minister and poet 1808–1889

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