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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

St. Jerome

And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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Fall Heaven Maintain Marriage Religious Sex Sin
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Deep God Prayer Reading Spiritual Talk
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Eyes Face Heart Mindset Secret Talk
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Friendship Reality
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Ignorance Worst Yourself
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?
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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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Happiness Learning Love Tongue
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.
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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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End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

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