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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.

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Jonathan Edwards
Age: 54 †
Born: 1703
Born: October 5
Died: 1758
Died: March 22
Clergyman
Philosopher
Theologian
Writer
East Windsor
Connecticut
Imaginary
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I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I have any right to this body or its members, no right to this tongue, to these hands, feet, ears or eyes. I have given myself clear away and not retained anything of my own.
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