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The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
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Jacksonville
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When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.
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Habit is overcome by habit.
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If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death.
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If you seek Jesus in all things you will surely find Jesus. And if you seek yourself, you will surely find yourself, but only to your ruin.
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O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.
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He will be with you also, all the way, that faithful God. Every morning when you awaken to the old and tolerable pain, at every mile of the hot uphill dusty road of tiring duty, on to the judgment seat, the same Christ there as ever, still loving you, still sufficient for you, even then. And then, on through all eternity.
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Love is a mighty power, a great and complete good. Love alone lightens every burden, and makes rough places smooth. It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders all bitterness sweet and acceptable.
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Of two evils we must always choose the least.
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Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.
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Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.
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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
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Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
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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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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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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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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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What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.
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The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.
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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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