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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

Johann Arndt

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Johann Arndt
Age: 65 †
Born: 1555
Born: December 27
Died: 1621
Died: May 11
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