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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
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
Happiness
Peace
Covet
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Labor
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The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
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Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
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To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.
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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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Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
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Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean.
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Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.
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Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
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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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Thy peace shall be in much patience.
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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.
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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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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
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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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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
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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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The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
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Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
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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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The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.
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