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Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.
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
Thomas von Kempen à Kempis
Hämerkin
Hämmerlein
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Simplicity reaches out after God purity discovers and enjoys Him.
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There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.
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Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.
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The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.
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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
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The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.
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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.
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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
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God deceiveth thee not.
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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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Leave off that excessive desire of knowing therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.
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The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
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A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
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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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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
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Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.
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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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Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters and do you wish to have all men your friends and benefactors? When shall your patience attain her crown if no adversity befalls you? If you are willing to suffer naught that is against you, how will you be the friend of Christ?
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No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
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