The friendship that can cease has never been real.
ST. JEROMETo read without writing is to sleep.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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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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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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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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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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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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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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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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