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They talk like angels but they live like men.

St. Jerome

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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Drink Enough Fear Reach Scripture
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Angel Live Man One Liner Talk
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Civilization Man Suffering
To read without writing is to sleep.
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One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
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Beginning Offering Ourselves Seek
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Big Life Live Ourselves Short
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Deep Ourselves Scars Teaching
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach

They talk like angels but they live like men.

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