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Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.
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
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No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
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Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.
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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.
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Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.
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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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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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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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I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book.
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Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which a man is lifted above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention - purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God, - purity apprehends and tastes Him.
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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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All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
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Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.
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You are a man, not God you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?
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If you can talk and it's convenient to talk, try to say things that edify.
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Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will.
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Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
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When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God. He is able and powerful to give you more grace and more spiritual comfort than you first had.
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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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