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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

St. Jerome

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
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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Action Practice Talk Word Yourself
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Heaven Learning Seek Truth
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Ignorance Worst Yourself
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
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
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Animal Eat Home Sin
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Athlete Himself Inspirational Motivational
Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.
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Alive Color Emotion Expression Feeling Music Myself Voice
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Friendship Reality
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
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
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Lost One Liner Thinking
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Deep Easy Fast Talk

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