Note 197 — LECTURE VI. THE THEOLOGY OF PROVERBS.
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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller, vol. 3, p. 266. In respect of words like these, wrung out from moments of agony, and not the abiding convictions of the utterer, may we not venture to hope that our own proverb, For mad words deaf ears, is often graciously true, even in the very courts of heaven?