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YET we ought by advancing in life and attaining to virtue to aim rather
at those kinds of prayer which are poured forth either from the
contemplation of the good things to come or from fervour of love, or which
at least, to speak more humbly and in accordance with the measure of
beginners, arise for the acquirement of some virtue or the extinction of
some fault. For otherwise we shall not possibly attain to those sublimer
kinds of supplication of which we spoke, unless our mind has been little by
little and by degrees raised through the regular course of those
intercessions.
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