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. JEROMEAmong us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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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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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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