It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous,…

Charles Spurgeon
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It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago. ✨ Spurgeon, Charles (2015). The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 31: Sermons 1816-1876, p.101, Delmarva Publications, Inc.
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