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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

St. Jerome

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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Hard Impression Mindset White
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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Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
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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Fall Heaven Maintain Marriage Religious Sex Sin
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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Dangerous Devil Road Woman Women Empowerment
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
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
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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Appearance Body Fashion Purity Reveal Talk
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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Heaven Peace Soul Yourself
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Believe Difficult Easy God Love Seek
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Busy Devil Yourself
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.
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Creation Force God Heart Human Love Mindset

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