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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.
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
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Thomas Hämerken
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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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Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.
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The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
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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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Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
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If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?
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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 reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
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What thou art, that thou art that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater.
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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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He that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater.
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If you can talk and it's convenient to talk, try to say things that edify.
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Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.
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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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