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.
ST. JEROMEThe scars of others should teach us caution.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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