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The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
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Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
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I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping horse being dragged along by one man while another man struck him with a stick he was being driven to the Colmar slaughterhouse - haunted me for weeks.
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