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ST. JEROMEIf a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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To read without writing is to sleep.
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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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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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Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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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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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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