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.
ST. JEROMEIt is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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