"In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong."

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Source : Isaac Williams (1842). “The Baptistery, Or The Way of Eternal Life by the Author of "The Cathedral" [i.e. Isaac Williams]”, p.120

Isaac Williams

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