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If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt.

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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
Driven
Spirit
World
Seek
Forlorn
Poverty
Everlasting
Lose
Grasp
Loses
Selfishness
Shall
Contempt
Lasts
Naked
Last

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