When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
ST. JEROMEA friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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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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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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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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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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So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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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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Love knows nothing of order.
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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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The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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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.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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