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Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.

Ellen G. White

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Ellen G. White
Age: 87 †
Born: 1827
Born: November 26
Died: 1915
Died: July 16
Author
Theologian
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Gorham
Maine
Ellen Gould Harmon
Ellen Gould White
Living
Legacies
Benevolence
Substitute
Substitutes
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Miserable
Dying

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