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The scars of others should teach us caution.

St. Jerome

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
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
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
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Lost One Liner Thinking
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
ST. JEROME

Marriage Religious Sacred Vice
When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
ST. JEROME

Deep God Prayer Reading Spiritual Talk
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Food Herself Hide Money Poor Store
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
ST. JEROME

Change Death Deep Forever Human Ourselves
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
ST. JEROME

One Liner Tired Walk
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.
ST. JEROME

End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
To read without writing is to sleep.
ST. JEROME

One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
ST. JEROME

Devil Man Scripture Worst
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Act Action Talk Word

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