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Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it.

William Booth

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William Booth
Age: 83 †
Born: 1829
Born: April 10
Died: 1912
Died: August 20
Preacher
Theologian
Without
Soldier
Self
Excuse
Love
Health
Thickest
Life
Fight
Limb
Dies
Limbs
Fighting
Soldiers
True
Consideration
Live
Midst

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Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!
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Don't instill, or allow anybody else to instill into the hearts of your girls the idea that marriage is the chief end of life. If you do, don't be surprised if they get engaged to the first empty, useless fool they come across.
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I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.
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