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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: filigree-work, and dropped into a little golden drinking-cup a
small portion of a dark-coloured fluid.
"This," he said, "is one of those productions which Allah hath
sent on earth for a blessing, though man's weakness and
wickedness have sometimes converted it into a curse. It is
powerful as the wine-cup of the Nazarene to drop the curtain on
the sleepless eye, and to relieve the burden of the overloaded
bosom; but when applied to the purposes of indulgence and
debauchery, it rends the nerves, destroys the strength, weakens
the intellect, and undermines life. But fear not thou to use its
virtues in the time of need, for the wise man warms him by the
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