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Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.
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 Hammerlein
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Thomas Hämerken
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Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.
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Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God's sight.
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Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean.
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Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
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Man sees your actions, but God your motives.
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A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
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To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
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A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.
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So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.
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Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.
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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
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Salvation by the cross. [Lat., In cruce salus.]
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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
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Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
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We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
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Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.
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Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly.
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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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Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
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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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