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Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.

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Horace Mann
Age: 63 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: August 2
American Politician
Lawyer
Politician
University Teacher
Franklin
Massachusetts
Ocean
Roar
Deep
Whispers
Forever
Shell
Taken
Sentiment
Religious
Shells
Soul
Echoes
Men
Sentiments
Inborn
God
Inmost

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