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Always be ready always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.
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
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
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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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A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.
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Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
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Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.
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Salvation by the cross. [Lat., In cruce salus.]
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Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.
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Be Yourself -The man who is neither bent upon pleasing his fellows nor afraid of offending them will enjoy great peace.
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We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.
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Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
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All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
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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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