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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.”
“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 KEMPIS
German-Dutch monk and author · 1380 – 1471
Thomas à Kempis was a German-Dutch canon regular best known as the author of The Imitation of Christ, one of the most widely read Christian devotional books ever written. He spent most of his life in the Mount St Agnes monastery near Zwolle in the Netherlands.
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