| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 32330 |
| QUOTATION: | Study to do another’s will rather than thine own. Choose ever to have less rather than more. Seek ever the lower place and to be subject to all; ever wish and pray that the will of God may be perfectly done in thee and in all. Behold such a man enters the bounds of peace and calm. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471), German monk, mystic. The Imitation of Christ, pt. 3, ch. 25 (1471). |
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