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ST. JEROMEMalice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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