"The sense is like the sun; for the sun <i>seals</i> up the globe of heaven, and opens the globe of earth: so the sense doth obscure heavenly things, and reveals earthly things"
Seal [from A Dictionary of the English Language in Which Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers.]
Johnson, Samuel. <u>A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words Are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar</u>. New York,: AMS Press, 1967.