In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourself–your heart, if you do not guard it, will break down.

K.P. Yohannan
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In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourself--your heart, if you do not guard it, will break down. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Living In The Light Of Eternity

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