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A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.
James F. Cooper
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God planted the seeds of all the trees, continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.
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