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And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.
Imitation of Christ. Book i. Chap. 23.
Thomas
à Kempis
Thomas à Kempis
 
b. 1379 or 1380, d. 1471, German monk, traditional author of The Imitation of Christ, b. Kempen, Germany.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.)
 
Pronunciation:   km´ps, ä from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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The Imitation of Christ
This pastiche of biblical and Catholic passages remains the most influential of Christian devotional writings. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. VII, Part 2.
 
Bartlett’s Thomas à Kempis Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
 
Kempis, Thomas à, 32329 to 32335
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.



 
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