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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

St. Jerome

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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Children Compassionate Heart Live Man Mom Pain Suffering World
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Eyes Face Heart Mindset Secret Talk
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Heaven Learning Seek Truth
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
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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End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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Book Daughter God Heart Life Yourself
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Friendship Reality
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
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
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Humanity Move Power True
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
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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Happiness Learning Love Tongue

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

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