The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
ST. JEROMESeek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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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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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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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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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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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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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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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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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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