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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.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
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It thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace--not in earth, but in heaven not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.
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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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Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
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If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
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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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A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.
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Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly.
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May not be your peace in the mouth of the men since no matter if they thing good or bad about you, you should not be a different man because of that.
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Whoever finds Jesus, finds a rich treasure, and a good above every good. He who loses Jesus loses much indeed, and more than the whole world. Poorest of all is he who lives without Jesus, and richest of all is he who stands in favor with Jesus.
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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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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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So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.
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Man sees your actions, but God your motives.
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If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?
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The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.
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Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
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A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
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No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.
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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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There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.
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