John Newton (1725–1807) Anglican clergyman and hymn-writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 266.
“Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.”
— Betty Smith, book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943).
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