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Revelation: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Lochiel, Lochiel! beware of the day; For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal But man cannot cover what God would reveal; 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. C.— CAMPBELL — Lochiel's Warning.

'Tis Revelation satisfies all doubts, Explains all mysteries except her own, And so illuminates the path of life, That fools discover it, and stray no more.— COWPER — The Task. Bk. II. The Time-Piece. L. 526.

Reason stands aghast at the sight of an "unprincipled, immoral, incorrigible" publick; And the word of God abounds in such threats and denunciations, as must strike terror into the heart of every believer.— RICHARD HURD — Works. Vol. IV.

Sermon 1. Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.— LONGFELLOW — Hyperion. Bk. III. Ch. V.