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If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you.
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
Gladly
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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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We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.
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No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.
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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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Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.
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But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
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Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
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Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
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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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My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension.
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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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Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.
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We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
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Always be ready always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.
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Simplicity reaches out after God purity discovers and enjoys Him.
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Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
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Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.
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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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Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor? [Lat., Cur quaeris quietem, quam natus sis ad laborem?]
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Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.
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