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What thou art, that thou art that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
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Jacksonville
Florida
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Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.
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We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.
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A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
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How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
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So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.
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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.
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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
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The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.
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Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
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Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
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If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
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All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.
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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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Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.
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Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ.
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The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.
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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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We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
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It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should.
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For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.
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