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Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.

Oswald Chambers

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Oswald Chambers
Age: 43 †
Born: 1874
Born: July 24
Died: 1917
Died: November 15
Author
Theologian
Writer
Aiberdeen
Amount
Great
Shallowness
Burns
Sorrow

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