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It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

Charles Spurgeon

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Charles Spurgeon
Age: 57 †
Born: 1834
Born: June 19
Died: 1892
Died: January 31
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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