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Habit is overcome by habit.
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
Overcome
Overcoming
Habit
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A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.
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Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions.
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Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
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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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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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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.
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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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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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O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.
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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
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He rides pleasantly enough whom the grace of God carries.
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Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.
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Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.
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Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.
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Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.
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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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The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.
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Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
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Always be ready always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.
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No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
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