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• It is much safer to obey than to rule. -- Thomas A. Kempi
• Man proposes, God disposes. -- Thomas a Kempi
• Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in.
  A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid....
• Man proposes, but God disposes. -- Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471) -- Imitation of Christ, Book i, Chap.
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• Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen. -- Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471) -- Imitation of Christ, Book iii, Chap.
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• When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. -- Thomas a Kempi
• Sic transit gloria mundi. [So passes away the glory of this world.] -- Thomas a Kempi
• And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.
  -- Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471) -- Imitation of Christ, Book i, Chap. 23...
• 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. Kempi...