Quotemeal: Aug. 21st, 2017

Monday, August 21, 2017

"Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds."
— William Shakespeare

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— Romano Guardini —
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"The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?"
— Richard Baxter —

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Illustration of William Shakespeare — "Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds."

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