Date: 1838

"Although we may have fondly loved them [the dead], and may hallow the memory of their good qualities, we cannot always summon their image before us, and by the power of conception gaze on their features, and listen to their voice; but I venture to express my conviction, that no one who has been ...

— Gurney, Joseph John (1788-1847)

Date: w. 1821, 1840

"But whilst the sceptic destroys gross superstitions, let him spare to deface, as some of the French writers have defaced, the eternal truths charactered upon the imaginations of men."

— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)

Date: 1851

When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. It is the same as the pupil, in learning to write, following with his pen the lines that have been pencilled by the teacher."

— Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860)

Date: 1851

"For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over."

— Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860)

Date: 1852

"Give me thy hand, and hush awhile, / And turn those limpid eyes on mine, / And let me read there, love! thy inmost soul."

— Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)

Date: 1868

"The pardon Thou hast bought for me, / Engrave it on my heart"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1868

"Saviour, Thy Spirit's power exert, / To seal my pardon on my heart,"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1868

"When He hath begun our cure, / Seal'd the pardon on our heart,"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1868

"The gospel-faith Divine impart, / Which seals my pardon on my heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1868

"Jesus by His Spirit's power / Fuller confidence imparts, / Gives us what He gave before, / Seals the pardon on our hearts"

— Wesley, John and Charles