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Our power is not so much in us as through us.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
Age: 91 †
Born: 1878
Born: May 24
Died: 1969
Died: October 5
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H. E. Fosdick
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Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.
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What a testing of character adversity is.
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