#stumble

Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not. ↗

— Tokugawa Ieyasu

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. ↗

— George Byron

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#creeps #ever #happens #like #out

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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