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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

St. Jerome

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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Happiness Learning Love Tongue
No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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Creation Force God Heart Human Love Mindset
Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
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Death Faith God Life Love Oneself Purity Service
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Equality Man Woman
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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Hard Impression Mindset White
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Ignorance Worst 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
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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Doubt Himself
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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Heaven Peace Soul Yourself
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise
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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Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Busy Devil Worth Yourself

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