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Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.

Charles Spurgeon

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Charles Spurgeon
Age: 57 †
Born: 1834
Born: June 19
Died: 1892
Died: January 31
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Kelvedon
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon
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I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood.
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