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Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Desiderius Erasmus
Age: 69 †
Born: 1466
Born: November 6
Died: 1536
Died: July 12
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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
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I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.
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Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.
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From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits.
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