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So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')

So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')

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Death, Dying, Passing Away

All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding.

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

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

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Happiness, Time, Reflection

Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.

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Death, May, Thee
Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Augustine, Thomas A'Kempis (2006). “The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ”, p.240, Cosimo, Inc.

Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

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Memories, World, Remember

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.

Man proposes, but God disposes. [Lat., Nam homo proponit, sed Deus disponit.]

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God, Men, Propose

A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.

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Peace, Learning, Men

Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.

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Men, Sound, Daring

You will never be an inwardly religious and devout man unless you pass over in silence the shortcomings of your fellow men, and diligently examine your own weaknesses.

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Religious, Men, Silence

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

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Grace, Inward, Affliction

God is able to do more than man can understand.

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God, Men, Able
Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Augustine, Thomas A'Kempis (2006). “The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ”, p.378, Cosimo, Inc.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

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Foundation, Architecture, Building

Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.

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Criticism, Flattery, Praise

It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should.

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Speak, Easier, Should
"The Imitation of Christ". Book by Thomas à Kempis, Book I, ch. 20, c. 1418.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

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Patience, Men, Practice

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

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Art, Fighting, Overcoming

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

Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.

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Knowing, Soul, Desire

It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.

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Able, Repentance, Feels

Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.

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Thinking, Kind, Should

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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Sight, Catholic, Littles
"The Imitation of Christ".

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, Strong, Long

Whoever puts his confidence in men or in any creature is very foolish.

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Confidence, Men, Foolish

Without labor there is no rest, nor without fighting can the victory be won.

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Fighting, Victory, Labor
Thomas A. Kempis (2015). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.87, Letcetera Publishing

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