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Updated: May 28, 2025
Sleep is so insidious a foe that we can never recall the moment when it overmasters us, nor can we fight it off when in a prone or easy posture. He adhered to the plan he had formed. Winchester in hand, he moved away from the fire until, by interposing the large trunk of a tree between himself and the light, he was invisible from that direction.
The faith cannot fail us for long. Full soon the ebb-tide turns, "And Belief overmasters doubt, and I know that I know" that there is perfection; that the desire for it is the breath of life; that the search for it is the hope of immortality. But I know only in part. I see through a glass darkly, and I may be no nearer it now than when I started, yet the search has carried me far from that start.
"Not so!" interrupted Warwick, who overheard him, "not so; thou wrongest me! Thy father was shocked at those butcheries; thy father recoiled from that accursed standard; thy father was of a stock ancient and noble as my own! But, these Woodvilles! tush! my passion overmasters me. We will go to the king, it is time."
"If you love, you will be born again; and if this man overmasters your imagination, your memory might quite as well be dead. One of the three or four things in my life that I have to be thankful for is that I never had to pass through that ordeal.
As fiction, it suffers from the Rugby "earnestness" which overmasters in it any purely artistic impulse, while infusing a certain fire and unity of its own.
There are similar moments for the soul when some word, or character, or event, or suggestion within ourselves, bows us in admiration before the incomparably Fair, in shame before the unapproachably Holy, in acceptance before the indisputably True, in adoration before the supremely Loving moments when "belief overmasters doubt, and we know that we know."
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