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Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.

Horace Bushnell

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Horace Bushnell
Age: 73 †
Born: 1802
Born: April 14
Died: 1876
Died: February 17
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