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continually we look at things about us without seeing more than a very little of what is there.

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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
Continually
Things
Awareness
Seeing
Littles
Look
Little
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