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Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery to humble man's heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven.

Adam Clarke

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Adam Clarke
Died: 1832
Died: August 26
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