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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.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
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First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
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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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Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.
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If you can talk and it's convenient to talk, try to say things that edify.
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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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Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will.
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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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It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.
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The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.
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Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
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Always be ready always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.
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Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.
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Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.
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Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.
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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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Be Yourself -The man who is neither bent upon pleasing his fellows nor afraid of offending them will enjoy great peace.
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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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No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.
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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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