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If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
Clergyman
Philosopher
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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
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To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.
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The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.
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For they truly know their Lord in the breaking of bread, whose heart within them so vehemently burneth, whilst Thou, O blessed Jesus, dost walk and converse with them.
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If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening.
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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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The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.
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A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.
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Do not interfere when your opinion is not sought.
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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
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Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions.
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Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
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No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.
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He that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater.
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Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you.
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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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Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
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Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
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Trust not to friends and kindred, neither do thou put off the care of thy soul's welfare til hereafter for men will sooner forget thee than thou art aware of.
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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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Thy peace shall be in much patience.
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