"The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world."
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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 291.
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Friedrich Tholuck
Friedrich August Gottreu Tholuck (March 30, 1799 – June 10, 1877), known as August Tholuck, was a German Protestant theologian and church leader.
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