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Quote by Thomas a Kempis

“Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.”

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Thomas a Kempis (1380 - July 25, 1471) was a German canon, known for his spiritual writings. He is best known for his work 'The Imitation of Christ,' which has had a profound impact on Christian thought and practice. more

“I have wished you dead and myself dead. How could it be otherwise. I have broken into you like a burglar. And you've set your dogs on me. And a pile of broken sticks. A child could kick. I have climbed you like a monument, gasoing, For the exercise and the view, And leaned over the railing at the top... Strong and warm, the summer wind.”

Children Strong Views Dog Wind Broken Exercise Summer Anger Sticks Warm Kicks Monument Burglars Summer Wind

Author:Alicia Ostriker

“You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation.”

People Thinking Knows Social Moral Fashion Anger Institutions Foundation Absurd Despise Conventions Obliged Cowardly Formality

Book:The Torture Garden

Source: The Torture Garden

“Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.”

Anger Invention Ovens

Book:Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

“Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?”

Knows May Running Loses Fire Waste Anger Hot Violent Heat Foe Liquor Seeming Furnaces Outrun Swiftness

Book:Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

“Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds?”

Mind Anger Brilliant Criticize Stupid People Uneducated Great Minds Brilliant Minds

Author:Kelly Nelson

“One will never reach distant shores, if he chooses to remain upon the dock, In fear his little ship of dreams may be dashed against the rocks.”

Ifs May Littles Dream Fear Rocks Ships Shore Docks

Author:Fethullah Gulen

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