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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

St. Jerome

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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Knowledge Live Love Meditation Scripture Yourself
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 tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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One Liner Tired Walk
Let 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.
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Book Daughter God Heart Life Yourself
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
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship
When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Deep God Prayer Reading Spiritual Talk
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Affection Love Money Price
Haste is of the Devil.
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Devil One Liner
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Athlete Himself Inspirational Motivational
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
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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Appearance Body Fashion Purity Reveal Talk
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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Marriage Religious Sacred Vice
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Food Herself Hide Money Poor Store
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
ST. JEROME

Civilization Man Suffering

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