"The Bible is a window in this prison-world, through which we may look into eternity."
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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 29.
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Timothy Dwight IV
1795 β 1817
Timothy Dwight (May 14, 1752 β January 11, 1817) was an American academic and educator, theologian and author, and Congregationalist minister. He was the eighth president of Yale College (1795β1817).
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