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

— Thomas à Kempis

Memento semper finis, et quia perditum non redit tempus.

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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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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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