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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.

— Thomas à Kempis The Imitation of Christ (1418)

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There is no creature so small and abject, that it representeth not the goodness of God.

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And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.

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Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

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Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.

Happy is the man who hath the hour of his death always before his eyes, and daily prepareth himself to die.

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