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Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men…
Quote byFrederic Dan Huntington · 1819–1904
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 344..
English (original)
Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease, or sit idly with folded hands looking lazily out on fields white for the harvest, but where no sickle rings against the wheat.
— Frederic Dan Huntington
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