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the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Despondency
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Colton declares that in moments of despondency Shakespeare thought himself no poet; and Raphael doubted his right to be called a painter. We call such self-suspicions morbid, and ascribe them to a hypochondriacal fit; in what other way can we speak of those doubts as to their saintship, which occasionally afflict the most eminently holy of the Lord's people!
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Spurgeon, Charles. Entry for 'Despondency'. Spurgeon's Illustration Collection. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fff/d/despondency.html. 1870.
Spurgeon, Charles. Entry for 'Despondency'. Spurgeon's Illustration Collection. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fff/d/despondency.html. 1870.
