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When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.

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
Departs
Enters
Anger
Wisdom
Mind

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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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Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor? [Lat., Cur quaeris quietem, quam natus sis ad laborem?]
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Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
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Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
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Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
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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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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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Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly.
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We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.
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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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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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Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
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For things that worth little or nothing we care a lot and we oversight what is necessary because every man goes towards the exterior and if he doesn't regain consciousness quickly, with pleasure remain involved in it.
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Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ.
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To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.
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The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.
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He will be with you also, all the way, that faithful God. Every morning when you awaken to the old and tolerable pain, at every mile of the hot uphill dusty road of tiring duty, on to the judgment seat, the same Christ there as ever, still loving you, still sufficient for you, even then. And then, on through all eternity.
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God deceiveth thee not.
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Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
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