Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
ST. JEROMEWhoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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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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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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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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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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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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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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