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Thomas à Kempis
Thomas à Kempis
Kempis, Netherlands

For if he who resolveth bravely oftentimes falleth short, how shall it be with him who resolveth rarely or feebly?

Read the passage→Book I, Chapter XIX · Of the Exercises of a Religious Man
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