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Serbian Orthodox monastery of Ravanica, near Ćuprija, Serbia
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A passionate man turneth even good into evil and easily believeth evil; a good, peaceable man converteth all things into good.
Thomas à Kempis
— Thomas à Kempis
Author of The Imitation of Christ
The Imitation of Christ (c. 1418), Book II, ch. 3

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