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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

St. Jerome

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.
ST. JEROME

Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
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.
ST. JEROME

Book Daughter God Heart Life Yourself
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
ST. JEROME

Heart Idol Religious Vice
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
ST. JEROME

Deep Mistake Origin Water
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
ST. JEROME

Deep Easy Fast Talk
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
ST. JEROME

Care Listening Oneself Talk
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
ST. JEROME

Empty Preserve Stomach
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
ST. JEROME

Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
ST. JEROME

Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
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.
ST. JEROME

Beginning Offering Ourselves Seek
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
ST. JEROME

Eyes Face Heart Mindset Secret Talk
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
ST. JEROME

Marriage Religious Sacred Vice
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
ST. JEROME

Himself Religious Soul Teaching
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
ST. JEROME

Devil Man Scripture Worst
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
ST. JEROME

Animal Eat Home Sin
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
ST. JEROME

Ignorance Worst Yourself

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

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