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No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
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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Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
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Hämmerlein
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Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
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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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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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Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.
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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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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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The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
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Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.
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For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.
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Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
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A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.
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He that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater.
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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
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Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.
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Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee All passeth away: God only shall stay. Patience wins all: Who hath God, needeth nothing For God is his All.
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Always be ready always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.
Thomas a Kempis
Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.
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To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
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