From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

Laurence Overmire
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  2. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. - Anonymous

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More Quotes By Laurence Overmire
  1. Life is a poem most people never read.

  2. There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next.

  3. Freedom is an idea that no tyrant will ever crush.

  4. Those who oppose equality, compassion and social justice have been on the wrong side of history time and time again.

  5. Only in making peace - with ourselves, with others, and the world - will any of us find the life we are hoping for.

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