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It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.
William Gilmore Simms
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William Gilmore Simms
Age: 64 †
Born: 1806
Born: April 17
Died: 1870
Died: June 11
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The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.
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Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.
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