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Earnestness is good it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.
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
C. H. Spurgeon
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