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Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
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Jacksonville
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No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
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Some people are tempted most strongly at the beginning of their spiritual life, others near the end. Some are troubled all their lives. Still others receive only light temptation. Such things are decided by God, and we can trust his wisdom.
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First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
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How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
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Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
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Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.
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Be Yourself -The man who is neither bent upon pleasing his fellows nor afraid of offending them will enjoy great peace.
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Of two evils we must always choose the least.
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If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.
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The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
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No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.
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To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.
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The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
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If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.
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The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.
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Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
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What thou art, that thou art.
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Do not let your peace depend on what people say of you... True peace and joy is to be found in [Jesus] alone.
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The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
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