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

— 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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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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Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

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