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“Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein; Christ-like is it for sin to grieve, God-like is it all sin to leave.”
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- Source:
- Sin. (Sinngedichte.)
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 02825589996b4c432d64a8cfe7aca6865a62a00d0bfd911d2ff1c6c608e124c7
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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