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But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
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
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Hämerkin
Hämmerlein
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Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.
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Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
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When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.
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Always be ready always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.
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When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God.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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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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Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.
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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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The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
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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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No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.
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He is truly great that is great in charity. He is truly great that is little in himself, and maketh no account of any height of honor. And he is truly learned that doeth the will of God, and forsaketh his own will.
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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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Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.
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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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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
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Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.
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To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.
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