“Sow the seeds of life — humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 211.

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British writer and theologian 1816–1853

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