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

St. Jerome

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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Bad Book Hands Protection Thinking Yourself
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Action Beginning Inspirational Motivational Yourself
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
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Athlete Himself Inspirational Motivational
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
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
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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Drink Enough Fear Reach Scripture
The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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Blood Endurance Growth Rage Religious
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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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

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