"It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell."
— Selfishness

January 1, 1970

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Christian Scriver, Gotthold's Emblems (1667), translated by Robert Menzies (Edinburgh T. and T. Clark, 1862), CCLVIII. The Magnifying Glass, p. 347.