“Wells, when pumped out, yield purer water; and that of which no one partakes, turns to putrefaction. Use keeps steel brighter, but disuse produces rust in it. For, in a word, exercise produces a healthy condition both in souls and bodies. "No one lighteth a candle, and putteth it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick…”
Clement of Alexandria, 3th c. — The Stromata Book 1
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21And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?
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19And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
20And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.
— Mark 4:21 —
22For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.