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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
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Jacksonville
Florida
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Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.
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Judge yourself and beware of passing judgement on others. In judging others we expend our energy to no purpose we are often mistaken and easily sin. But if we judge ourselves our labour is always to our profit.
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The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
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Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.
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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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Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
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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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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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Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
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It carries a burden which is no burden it will not be kept back by anything low and mean it desires to be free from all wordly affections, and not to be entangled by any outward prosperity, or by any adversity subdued.
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Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
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There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.
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For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.
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Salvation by the cross. [Lat., In cruce salus.]
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Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.
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Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.
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Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
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Always be ready always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.
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Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.
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