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Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor? [Lat., Cur quaeris quietem, quam natus sis ad laborem?]
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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Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
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Thomas Hämerken
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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
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Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
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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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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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Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
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If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.
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For things that worth little or nothing we care a lot and we oversight what is necessary because every man goes towards the exterior and if he doesn't regain consciousness quickly, with pleasure remain involved in it.
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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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If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening.
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Do not interfere when your opinion is not sought.
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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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Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.
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No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . . There is no order so holy, no place so secret where there will be no temptation.
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All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
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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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A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
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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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Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
Thomas a Kempis
Know all and you will pardon all.
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