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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
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Jacksonville
Florida
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Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
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Do not interfere when your opinion is not sought.
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What thou art, that thou art that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater.
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For they truly know their Lord in the breaking of bread, whose heart within them so vehemently burneth, whilst Thou, O blessed Jesus, dost walk and converse with them.
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Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
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All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
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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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Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Thought thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.
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Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but like a living flame, a burning torch, it forces its way upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle.
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Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.
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Man proposes, but God disposes.
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The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
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Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
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So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.
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Thy peace shall be in much patience.
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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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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
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Ah, Lord God, thou holy lover of my soul, when thou comest into my heart, all that is within me shall rejoice.
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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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If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening.
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Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.
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