If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
ST. JEROMEMake knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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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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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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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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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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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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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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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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