If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
ST. JEROMEA friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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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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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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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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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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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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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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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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Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.
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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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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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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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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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