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There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: ‘Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw mud, the other stars.'

Amy Carmichael

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Amy Carmichael
Age: 83 †
Born: 1867
Born: December 16
Died: 1951
Died: January 18
Author
Missionary
Writer
Downshire
Amy Beatrice Carmichael
Two
Look
Mud
Looks
Bars
Something
Prison
Always
Looked
Men
Saws
Stars
Happy

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