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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
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Thomas a Kempis
Thomas von Kempen à Kempis
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What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.
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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
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No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
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Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
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No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.
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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.
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Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
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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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He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.
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The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
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The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.
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Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
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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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God evaluates by this criterion: How much love you invest in what you do is more important than how you do. The one who loves much is actually the one who does much.
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He rides pleasantly enough whom the grace of God carries.
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For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.
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A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.
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