--Tennyson, Godiva.

The Handwriting on the Wall[201 T.J.], [211 T.J.]

"Unhappy if we are but Half-men, in whom that
divine handwriting has never blazed forth,
all-subduing, in true sun-splendour."

--Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 9.

The Healing of the Nations.[478 S.A.]

"O books, ye monuments of mind,
concrete wisdom of the wisest;
Sweet solaces of daily life,
proofs and results of immortality;
Trees yielding all fruits,
whose leaves are for the healing of the nations."

--Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy of Reading.

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Heap Coals of Fire upon His Head.[507 T.J.], [504 G.B.]

"The furnace-coals alike of public scorn,
Private remorse, heaped glowing on his head."