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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
Thomas von Kempen
Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
Thomas a Kempis
Thomas von Kempen à Kempis
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Hämmerlein
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No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.
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It carries a burden which is no burden it will not be kept back by anything low and mean it desires to be free from all wordly affections, and not to be entangled by any outward prosperity, or by any adversity subdued.
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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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Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you.
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He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.
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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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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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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
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Without labor there is no rest, nor without fighting can the victory be won.
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When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God. He is able and powerful to give you more grace and more spiritual comfort than you first had.
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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.
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The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.
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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
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Thou shalt rest sweetly if thy heart condemn thee not.
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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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Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.
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Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.
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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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We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.
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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.
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