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Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?
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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Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God's sight.
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Habit is overcome by habit.
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Man sees your actions, but God your motives.
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Salvation by the cross. [Lat., In cruce salus.]
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O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.
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Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.
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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
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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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