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Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; and so it is with man's mind.

Source: Maxims for Her Nuns, in Selected Writings of St. Teresa of Avila, ed. E. Allison Peers, tr., William J. Doheny, 1950.
-- St Teresa of Avila, (Mar 28 1515-1582), Spanish mystic, poet; She was one of the great mystics and religious women of the Roman Catholic church; author of spiritual classics, e.g., The Interior Castle, 1575.

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