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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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Do not interfere when your opinion is not sought.
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For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.
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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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Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.
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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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No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.
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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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The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
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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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Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
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How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
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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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The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.
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But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
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