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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

St. Jerome

When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
ST. JEROME

Deep God Prayer Reading Spiritual Talk
Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Practice Talk Yourself
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
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.
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Book Daughter God Heart Life Yourself
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Act Action Talk Word
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Friendship Reality
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Humanity Move Power True
To read without writing is to sleep.
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One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
ST. JEROME

Creation Force God Heart Human Love Mindset
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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Happiness Learning Love Tongue
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
ST. JEROME

Care Listening Oneself Talk

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

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