"The truest worship is a life; All dreaming we resign; We lay our offerings at Thy feet, β Our lives, O God, are Thine!"
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Non-fiction authors from the United StatesAbolitionistsUnitarians from the United StatesFeminists from the United StatesTheologians from Boston
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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 118.
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John Weiss
John Weiss (28 June 1818 β 9 March 1879) was an American author and clergyman, as well as a noted abolitionist.
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