Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Had ripened into faith, and faith become

A passionate intuition.

The Excursion. Book iv.

Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."[481:1]

The Excursion. Book vi.

Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man,

Could field or grove, could any spot of earth,

Show to his eye an image of the pangs

Which it hath witnessed,—render back an echo

Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!