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If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
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Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
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Whoever finds Jesus, finds a rich treasure, and a good above every good. He who loses Jesus loses much indeed, and more than the whole world. Poorest of all is he who lives without Jesus, and richest of all is he who stands in favor with Jesus.
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He is truly great that is great in charity. He is truly great that is little in himself, and maketh no account of any height of honor. And he is truly learned that doeth the will of God, and forsaketh his own will.
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Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.
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The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.
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No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . . There is no order so holy, no place so secret where there will be no temptation.
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Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.
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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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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!
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When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.
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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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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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