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That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

Charles Spurgeon

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Charles Spurgeon
Age: 57 †
Born: 1834
Born: June 19
Died: 1892
Died: January 31
Autobiographer
Cleric
Hymnwriter
Missionary
Pastor
Preacher
Theologian
Writer
Kelvedon
Essex
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon
Deadly
Grass
Principle
Kindness
Sacrifice
Principles
Wayfarer
Crafty
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