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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?

St. Jerome

A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Heart Idol Religious Vice
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Man Religious Scripture
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
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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One Liner Tired Walk
Haste is of the Devil.
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Devil One Liner
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Heaven Learning Seek Truth
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Humanity Move Power True
And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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Fall Heaven Maintain Marriage Religious Sex Sin
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Believe Difficult Easy God Love Seek
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Civilization Man Suffering
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
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Lost One Liner Thinking
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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Alive Color Emotion Expression Feeling Music Myself Voice
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young

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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