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date: 16 May 2025

Thomas à Kempis c.1380–1471
German ascetical writer 

  1. I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.
    De Imitatione Christi bk. 1, ch. 1, sect. 3
  2. O quam cito transit gloria mundi.
    Oh how quickly the glory of the world passes away!
    De Imitatione Christi bk. 1, ch. 3, sect. 6; see Anonymous
  3. For man proposes, but God disposes.
    De Imitatione Christi bk. 1, ch. 19, sect. 2
  4. Never be completely idle, but either reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or at some useful work for the common good.
    De Imitatione Christi bk. 1, ch. 19, sect. 4
  5. Today the man is here; tomorrow he is gone. And when he is ‘out of sight’, quickly also is he out of mind.
    De Imitatione Christi bk. 1, ch. 23, sect. 1
  6. Would that we had spent one whole day well in this world!
    De Imitatione Christi bk. 1, ch. 23, sect. 2