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. JEROMEWoman is the root of all evil.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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