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Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
Clergyman
Hymnwriter
Priest
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Everything
Keeps
Use
Nature
Best

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