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We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.

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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
Clergyman
Hymnwriter
Priest
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Boston
Massachusetts
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