"Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun."
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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 316.
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Thomas Cogswell Upham
Thomas Cogswell Upham (30 January 1799 – 2 April 1872) was an American philosopher, psychologist, pacifist, poet, author, and educator who became an important figure in the holiness movement.
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