Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
ST. JEROMEWine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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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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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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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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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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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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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
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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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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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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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