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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.

St. Jerome

Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Change Death Deep Forever Human Ourselves
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Lost One Liner Thinking
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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Entrepreneur Failure Inspirational
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
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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Death Expense Himself Man Mom
They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Angel Live Man One Liner Talk
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Big Life Live Ourselves Short
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Civilization Man Suffering
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
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
Love knows nothing of order.
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Love One Liner Order
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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Marriage Religious Sacred Vice
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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Book Daughter God Heart Life Yourself
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Man Religious Scripture

When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.

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