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title: 'Samuel Miller Offers Hope to the Hopeless'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2023-12-01
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2023-samuel-miller-offers-hope-to-the-hopeless
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# Samuel Miller Offers Hope to the Hopeless

“Let no one say, that he is *useless* in the world ; that his life is of no value, either to his relatives, or to mankind; and, therefore, that he does no injury by taking it away.” — [**Samuel Miller**](/authors/samuel-miller), *The Guilt, Folly, and Sources of Suicide: Two Discourses* (1805), p. 25