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Dreadful would be the morning which should say—"Be thou a human child incarnate;" but more dreadful the morning which should say—"Bear thou henceforth the sceptre of thy self-dominion through life, and the passion of life!"

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various

Far be it from us to oppose merely natural impulses to purity of heart, endeavors after improvement, struggles for self-dominion; nay rather, marriage requires and makes all these the more easy.

From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob