“Every sinful act is another cord woven into that mighty cable of habit, which binds the spirit to the throne of darkness.”

— David Thomas (born 1813)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 296.

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19th-century Welsh preacher 1813–1894

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