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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.

St. Jerome

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
ST. JEROME

Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
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.
ST. JEROME

End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
ST. JEROME

Empty Preserve Stomach
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
ST. JEROME

Call Earth Heaven Learning
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
ST. JEROME

Change Death Deep Forever Human Ourselves
Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
ST. JEROME

Action Practice Talk Word Yourself
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
ST. JEROME

Civilization Man Suffering
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
ST. JEROME

Food Herself Hide Money Poor Store
Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
ST. JEROME

Death Faith God Life Love Oneself Purity Service
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
ST. JEROME

Athlete Himself Inspirational Motivational
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
ST. JEROME

Busy Devil Yourself
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
ST. JEROME

Marriage Religious Sacred Vice
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
ST. JEROME

Marriage Myself Praise
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
ST. JEROME

Eyes Face Heart Mindset Secret Talk
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
ST. JEROME

Enough Food One Liner Rich
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
ST. JEROME

Heaven Learning Seek Truth

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