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If you can talk and it's convenient to talk, try to say things that edify.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
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Philosopher
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Jacksonville
Florida
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Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
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Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
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The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
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Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
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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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In the morning fix thy good purpose and at night examine thyself what thou hast done, how thou hast behaved thyself in word, deed, and thought.
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God evaluates by this criterion: How much love you invest in what you do is more important than how you do. The one who loves much is actually the one who does much.
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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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Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
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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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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 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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Do not let your peace depend on what people say of you... True peace and joy is to be found in [Jesus] alone.
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Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.
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He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.
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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
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It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.
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The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.
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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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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
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