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Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of - and which, if wrested away without the substitution of another something in its place, would leave a void and a vacancy as painful to the mind, as hunger is to the natural system.... The heart must have something to cling to.

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Thomas Chalmers
Age: 67 †
Born: 1780
Born: March 17
Died: 1847
Died: May 30
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