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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.

St. Jerome

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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Hard Impression Mindset White
When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Deep God Prayer Reading Spiritual Talk
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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Bad Goodness Touch Woman
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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Action Practice Talk Word Yourself
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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Battle Death Engagement Field Friendship Survive War
To read without writing is to sleep.
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One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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One Liner Tired Walk
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Action Beginning Inspirational Motivational Yourself
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Heaven Learning Seek Truth
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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Blood Endurance Growth Rage Religious
Haste is of the Devil.
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Devil One Liner
They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Angel Live Man One Liner Talk
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Affection Love Money Price
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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Children Compassionate Heart Live Man Mom Pain Suffering World
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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Face Faith Forever Peace Time World Yourself
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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Bad Book Hands Protection Thinking Yourself
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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Knowledge Live Love Meditation Scripture Yourself
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Eyes Face Heart Mindset Secret Talk
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Athlete Himself Inspirational Motivational
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
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Death Faith God Life Love Oneself Purity Service
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Friendship Reality
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
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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Appearance Body Fashion Purity Reveal Talk

When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.

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