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When you have overcome one temptation, you must he ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger. A man had need to fear this most of all, that he fears not at all.

— Thomas Brooks

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If any prayer be a duty, then secret prayer must be superlatively so, for it prepares and fits the soul for all other supplication.

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