Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
ST. JEROMEInstead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.
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For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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