Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Commonplace Book

'...There is perhaps no strength so great and abiding as that which follows from a resisted temptation. Every dangerous allurement is like an enchanted monster, which, being conquered, loses all his venom and changes at once into a king of great treasure, eager to make requital...'

from The School for Saints by John Oliver Hobbes (Chapter V)

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