The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
ST. JEROMEFor 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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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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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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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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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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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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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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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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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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