Literary Excerpt from Walter Scott
Walter Scott
The Unionist 1833-09-05
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There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest: there are those whom it has summoned amid scenes of revelry and idle vanity: there are those, too, who have heard its ‘still small voice’ amid rural leisure and placid contentment; but perhaps the knowledge which causeth not to err, is most frequently impressed upon the mind during seasons of affliction; and tears are the softened showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring and take root in the human breast.— Walter Scott
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This excerpt is still included in online quote data bases today. It encapsulates a Romantically-tinged understanding of spiritual individuality. It can be found in Walter Scott, The Monastery, in Three Volumes, Vol. III (Edinburgh: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820), p. 137.
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