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Thought for the day

He weeps! the falling drop puts out the sun; He sighs! the sigh earth's deep foundation shakes. If in His love so terrible, what then His wrath inflamed?

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Edward Young, on their own day · Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 271.
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Remembered today

Benjamin Nottingham Webster 3 July 1882 English artist

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Edward Young: Joseph Highmore, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
Charlie Higson: Christopher William Adach from London, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
Joanne Harris: InfoGibraltar, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
Darren O'Shaughnessy: jenniely LY, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
Matt Haig: Kevin Payravi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
Benjamin Nottingham Webster: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized