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Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
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Jacksonville
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Thomas Hammerlein
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Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.
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Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
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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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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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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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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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Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.
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Judge yourself and beware of passing judgement on others. In judging others we expend our energy to no purpose we are often mistaken and easily sin. But if we judge ourselves our labour is always to our profit.
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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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A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.
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Always be ready always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.
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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
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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.
Thomas a Kempis
Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.
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Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.
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The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.
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It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.
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Thy peace shall be in much patience.
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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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