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• Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

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  Life, Views, Intelligence

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• Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you.

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  Faith, Sweet, Heart

  Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• O Lord, you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done, as you please. Give what you will, how much you will, and when you will.

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  Giving, Done, Lord

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• Let all your thoughts be with the Most High, and direct your humble prayers unceasingly to Christ. If you cannot contemplate high and heavenly things, take refuge in the Passion of Christ, and love to dwell within His Sacred Wounds. For if you devoutly seek the Wounds of Jesus and the precious marks of His Passion, you will find great strength in all troubles.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Passion

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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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  Adversity, Men, Virtue

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1543, Moody Publishers

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• Simplicity reaches out after God; purity discovers and enjoys Him.

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  Simplicity, Purity, Enjoy

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• Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion.

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  Moving, Heart, Curiosity

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• A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.

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  Heaven, Grace, Soul

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• A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

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  Inspirational, Gymnastics, Sound

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• I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book.

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  Book, Littles, Found

  G K Chesterton, John Bunyan, Brother Lawrence, Andrew Murray, R A Torrey (2013). “Hendrickson Christian Classics Audio Library”, p.18, Hendrickson Publishers

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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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  Happiness, Time, Reflection

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• Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.

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  Giving Up, Lust, Asceticism

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• Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.

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  Blessed, Simple, Simple Living

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• The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

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  Love You, Love Yourself, Self

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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.

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  Book, Heart, Glasses

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• A lover of Jesus and of the truth can lift himself above himself in spirit.

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  Jesus, Growth, Spirit

  "Imitation of Christ". Book by Thomas a Kempis, Book II, Chapter I,

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• It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented and dejected on the slightest pretext; they will never gain peace of mind unless they subject themselves wholeheartedly for the love of God.

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  Mind, Gains, God Love

  Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.

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  Peace, Grief, Fall

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Augustine, Thomas A'Kempis (2006). “The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ”, p.300, Cosimo, Inc.

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• For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.

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  Giving, Grace, Overcoming

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• A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.

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  Men, People, Soul

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• Cling, therefore, to Jesus in life and death; trust yourself to the glory of Him who alone can help you when all others fail.

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  Jesus, Life And Death, Helping

  Thomas a Kempis, Aeterna Press (1947). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.87, Aeterna Press

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• I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

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  Sin, Feels, Know How

  'De Imitatione Christi' bk. 1, ch. 1, sect. 3

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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.

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  Love, Believe, Loving Someone

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• If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?

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  All Things, Ifs, Thyself

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• Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which a man is lifted above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention - purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God, - purity apprehends and tastes Him.

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  Men, Wings, Two

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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