The friendship of high and sanctified spirits loses nothing… - Robert Hall

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The friendship of high and sanctified spirits loses nothing by death but its alloy; failings disappear, and the virtues of those whose faces we shall behold no more appear greater and more sacred when beheld through the shades of the sepulchre.

Robert Hall

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Robert Hall (2 May 1764 – 21 February 1831) was an English Baptist minister.

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