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A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!
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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My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension.
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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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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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Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
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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.
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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
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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 man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.
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Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.
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If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening.
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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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