Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
ST. JEROMEEarly impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
ST. JEROMEWhen I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
ST. JEROMEBe at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
ST. JEROMEThere are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
ST. JEROMETrue friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROMEWhile truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
ST. JEROMEThank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
ST. JEROMEMatrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
ST. JEROMEVanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
ST. JEROMEThe scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROMEIt is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
ST. JEROMEWe must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
ST. JEROMEMalice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
ST. JEROMEA false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
ST. JEROMEFailure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
ST. JEROMEThe face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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