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God is absolutely good and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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