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Thomas à Kempis
Thomas à Kempis
Kempis, Netherlands

What doth care about future events bring thee, save sorrow upon sorrow? Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. It is vain and useless to be disturbed or lifted up about future things which perhaps will never come.

Read the passage→Book III, Chapter XXX · Of Asking the Divine Aid, and of Confidence of Recovering Grace
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