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  ...book!' If your heart is hard, and your eyes dry, make something like that your continual prayer.
2. 'A poor-man,' said Mr. Desires-awake, about his associate. 'Mr. Wet- eyes is a poor man, and a man of a broken spirit.' 'Let Oliver take comfort in his dark sorrows and melancholies. The quantity of sorrow he has, does it not mean withal the quantity of sympathy he has, and the quantity of faculty and of victory he shall yet have? Our sorrow is the inverted image of our nobleness. The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.   Black smoke, as of Tophet, filling all your universe, it can yet by true heart-energy become flame, and the brilliancy of heaven. Courage!'
'This is the angel of the earth, And she is always weeping.'
3. 'A poor man, and a man of a broken spirit, and yet one that can speak well to a petition.' Yes; and you will see how true that eulogy of Mr. Wet-eyes is if you will run over in your mind the outstanding instances of successful petitioners in the Scriptures. As you come...   Carlyle, Thomas

Excerpt from Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) · This quote is tagged Despair · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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