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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.

Jonathan Edwards

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

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