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Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
Clergyman
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
Thomas von Kempen
Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
Thomas a Kempis
Thomas von Kempen à Kempis
Hämerkin
Hämmerlein
Endure
Prudently
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Flatters
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Contradicts
Patiently
Grant
Flattery
Grants
Avoid
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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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Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.
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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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When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.
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First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
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The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.
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Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul.
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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
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If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily but you must bear it.
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Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.
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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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Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
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No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.
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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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Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
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Of two evils we must always choose the least.
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Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
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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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All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.
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It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should.
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