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Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.
Walter Raleigh
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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.
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