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We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
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Jacksonville
Florida
Thomas von Kempen
Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
Thomas a Kempis
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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
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Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions.
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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.
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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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How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
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Man proposes, but God disposes.
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It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.
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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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For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.
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The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.
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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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Simplicity reaches out after God purity discovers and enjoys Him.
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Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
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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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