Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
ST. JEROMELet your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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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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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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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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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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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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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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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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