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Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
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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Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor? [Lat., Cur quaeris quietem, quam natus sis ad laborem?]
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It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.
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Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
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We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
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First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
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God deceiveth thee not.
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He that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater.
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Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.
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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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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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Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.
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Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?
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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.
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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
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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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Leave off that excessive desire of knowing therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.
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If you would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven. For he who give the us occasion to fight, to the end we may get the victory, is ready to succor those that fight manfully, and do trust in his grace.
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No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.
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Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
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Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but like a living flame, a burning torch, it forces its way upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle.
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