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While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
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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Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier
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What a testing of character adversity is.
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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
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