Honest speech does not seek secret places.
ST. JEROMEAvoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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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.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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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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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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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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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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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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