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Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
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
Malleolus
Thomas a Kempis
Thomas von Kempen à Kempis
Hämerkin
Hämmerlein
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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
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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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If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death.
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Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you.
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The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.
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Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul.
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Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Thought thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.
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The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
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Leave off that excessive desire of knowing therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.
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If you can talk and it's convenient to talk, try to say things that edify.
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The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.
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Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
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When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God. He is able and powerful to give you more grace and more spiritual comfort than you first had.
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The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
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We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.
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No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
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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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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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All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
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But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
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