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This earthly body is slow and heavy in all its motions, listless and soon tired with action. But our heavenly bodies shall be as fire as active and as nimble as our thoughts are.

John Wesley

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John Wesley
Age: 87 †
Born: 1703
Born: June 17
Died: 1791
Died: March 2
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