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It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
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Philosopher
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Jacksonville
Florida
Thomas von Kempen
Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
Thomas a Kempis
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If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.
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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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God deceiveth 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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No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
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Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.
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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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My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension.
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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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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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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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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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A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!
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Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.
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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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Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.
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First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
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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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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
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