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True faith is ever connected with hope.

John Calvin

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John Calvin
Age: 54 †
Born: 1509
Born: July 10
Died: 1564
Died: May 27
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The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the scholars but there is nobody who does not imagine that he is really better than others.
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