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O Christians! are you willing to walk the streets of heaven, and have no one greet you there? Would you be willing to go yourselves inside the gates and never have a soul to greet you and say, " I thank God for the kind words of sympathy and love you spoke on earth?"
Joseph Cummings
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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Joseph Cummings
Born:
March 3, 1817
Died:
May 7, 1890
(aged 73)
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Joseph Cummings was the president of Wesleyan University from 1857-1875, president of Northwestern University from 1881-1890, and had been president of the predecessor of Syracuse University from 1854 to 1857.
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