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. (Friedrich Tholuck)

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.

Friedrich Tholuck

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