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Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
Clergyman
Philosopher
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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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Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly.
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If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death.
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Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.
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Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
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Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.
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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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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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A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.
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Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.
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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
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Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
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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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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
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Salvation by the cross. [Lat., In cruce salus.]
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If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily but you must bear it.
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No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.
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In the morning fix thy good purpose and at night examine thyself what thou hast done, how thou hast behaved thyself in word, deed, and thought.
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Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
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Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
Thomas a Kempis
