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CONFERENCE 20. · CHAPTER X.
How the recollection of our sins should be avoided.
we must endeavour to rouse ourselves to this praiseworthy , by aiming at virtue and by the desire for the kingdom of heaven rather than by dangerous recollections of sins, for a man is sure to be suffocated by the pestilential smells of the sewer as long as he chooses to stand over it or to stir its filth.