Thomas à Kempis
Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic
Lived from: 1380 - 1471
Category: Theologians and clergy | Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
Netherlands
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It is much safer to obey, than to govern.
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It is no little wisdom for a man to keep himself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to him, and to turn his heart to God and not to be troubled with man's judgment.
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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.
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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.
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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.
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Love makes everything that is heavy light.
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Man proposes, but God disposes.
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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.
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No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
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Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.
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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.
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Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.
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The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
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The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
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