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weal

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weal1
a raised mark on the surface of the body produced by a blow

weal2
Obsolete the state


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I TAKE goodness in this sense, the affecting of the weal of men, which is that the Grecians call philanthropia; and the word humanity (as it is used) is a little too light to express it.
So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.
Shall I, or shall I not (come weal, come woe) take myself off?
 
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