“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 à Kempis , book The Imitation of Christ

Book I, ch. 16.
Source: The Imitation of Christ (c. 1418)

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German canon regular 1380–1471

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