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Absence
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
-Thomas Kempis
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Adversity
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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.
-Thomas Kempis
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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.
-Thomas Kempis
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Age
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Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!
-Thomas Kempis, The Imitation Of Christ c. 1420, Book 1, Chapter 23
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Blame
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He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
-Thomas Kempis
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Change
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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.
-Thomas Kempis
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Charity
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He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.
-Thomas Kempis
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Christianity
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Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.
-Thomas Kempis
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Conversation
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No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
-Thomas Kempis
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Duty
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Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
-Thomas Kempis
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Enemy, Enemies
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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.
-Thomas Kempis
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Faith
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He will be with you also, all the way, that faithful God. Every morning when you awaken to the old and tolerable pain, at every mile of the hot uphill dusty road of tiring duty, on to the judgment seat, the same Christ there as ever, still loving you, still sufficient for you, even then. And then, on through all eternity.
-Thomas Kempis
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Fear
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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
-Thomas Kempis
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Flattery
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Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
-Thomas Kempis
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Freedom
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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.
-Thomas Kempis
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Friends
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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.
-Thomas Kempis
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Goals
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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
-Thomas Kempis
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God
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Man proposes, but God disposes.
-Thomas Kempis
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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.
-Thomas Kempis
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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.
-Thomas Kempis
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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.
-Thomas Kempis
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Heart
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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.
-Thomas Kempis
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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.
-Thomas Kempis
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Identity
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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
-Thomas Kempis
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The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
-Thomas Kempis
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