“Beloved, you that have faith in the fountain, frequent it. Beware of two errors which are very natural and very disastrous; beware of thinking any sin too great for it; beware of thinking any sin too small.”

—  James Hamilton

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 88.

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