“A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst and die whilst the water of earthly delights is running all around him. We are made to need persons not things.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 390.
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“Man cannot live in the midst of plenty.”
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 206.

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