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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

St. Jerome

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
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
ST. JEROME

Enemy Photograph Reflection
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
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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Face Faith Forever Peace Time World Yourself
Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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Children Compassionate Heart Live Man Mom Pain Suffering World
Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Action Beginning Inspirational Motivational Yourself
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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Beginning Dignity Heaven Human Moments Person Race Soul Value
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
Love knows nothing of order.
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Love One Liner Order
Haste is of the Devil.
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Devil One Liner
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

Battle Death Engagement Field Friendship Survive War
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Call Earth Heaven Learning
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
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.
ST. JEROME

Beginning Offering Ourselves Seek
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin

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