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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
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Jacksonville
Florida
Thomas von Kempen
Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
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All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing and His peace passing all understanding.
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Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.
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Trust not to friends and kindred, neither do thou put off the care of thy soul's welfare til hereafter for men will sooner forget thee than thou art aware of.
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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
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Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.
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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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Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.
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Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.
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It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.
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The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.
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Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?
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God deceiveth thee not.
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I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book.
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Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which a man is lifted above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention - purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God, - purity apprehends and tastes Him.
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Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
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Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee All passeth away: God only shall stay. Patience wins all: Who hath God, needeth nothing For God is his All.
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Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.
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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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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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