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I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book.
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
Happiness
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Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.
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We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
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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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What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.
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Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.
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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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The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
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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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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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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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