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Thomas à Kempis
Thomas à Kempis
Kempis, Netherlands

Arise, begin this very moment, and say, “Now is the time to do: now is the time to fight, now is the proper time for amendment.”

Read the passage→Book I, Chapter XXII · Of the Consideration of Human Misery
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