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Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.
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 Hammerlein
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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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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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What thou art, that thou art that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater.
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All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
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The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
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Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will.
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Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly.
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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
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Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee All passeth away: God only shall stay. Patience wins all: Who hath God, needeth nothing For God is his 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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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.
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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.
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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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Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God's sight.
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A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
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Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
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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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If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?
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You are a man, not God you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?
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Habit is overcome by habit.
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