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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.

St. Jerome

If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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Deep Mistake Origin Water
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
So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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Beginning Dignity Heaven Human Moments Person Race Soul Value
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
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
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Act Action Talk Word
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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Compare Evil Goodness Marriage Oneself Talk Virgin
Love knows nothing of order.
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Love One Liner Order
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship
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
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
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Eyes Face Heart Mindset Secret Talk
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise

A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.

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