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All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
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
Greed
Begins
Joy
Gnaws
Ends
Pleasantly
Avarice
Earthly
Materialism
Kills
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Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.
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Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
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To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
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Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.
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Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
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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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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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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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How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
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Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
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No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
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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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May not be your peace in the mouth of the men since no matter if they thing good or bad about you, you should not be a different man because of that.
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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.
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It thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace--not in earth, but in heaven not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.
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Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.
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Thy peace shall be in much patience.
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The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.
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