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If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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T is the Divinity that stirs within us.
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