"Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it."
-Thomas a Kempis
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"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.“
-Thomas a Kempis
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"Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible."
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"All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it."
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"The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid."
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"Without the way, there is no going without the truth, there is no knowing without the life, there is no living."
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"But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor."
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"Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain."
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"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."
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"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."
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