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No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
Clergyman
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
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Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
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Hämerkin
Hämmerlein
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The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.
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Salvation by the cross. [Lat., In cruce salus.]
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First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
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Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
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When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.
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To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.
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Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.
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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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Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
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He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.
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He will be with you also, all the way, that faithful God. Every morning when you awaken to the old and tolerable pain, at every mile of the hot uphill dusty road of tiring duty, on to the judgment seat, the same Christ there as ever, still loving you, still sufficient for you, even then. And then, on through all eternity.
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If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death.
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Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor? [Lat., Cur quaeris quietem, quam natus sis ad laborem?]
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Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
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