Rev. Samuel Spring (1746–1819) was an early American Revolutionary War chaplain and Congregationalist minister.
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“Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 5:5.
The third of the Beatitudes, from the Sermon on the Mount. The words recall those in Proverbs 37:11, “But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.” In his Notebooks, the author Samuel Butler wrote, “I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.” (Samuel Butler’s Notebooks, p. 220, 1951)
“Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)