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Why do you not practise what you preach.

St. Jerome

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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Beginning Offering Ourselves Seek
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Athlete Himself Inspirational Motivational
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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One Liner Tired Walk
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
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Act Action Talk Word
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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Happiness Learning Love Tongue
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Busy Devil Yourself
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Animal Eat Home Sin
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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Fall Heaven Maintain Marriage Religious Sex Sin
Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Action Beginning Inspirational Motivational Yourself
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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Dangerous Devil Road Woman Women Empowerment
They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Angel Live Man One Liner Talk
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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End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Big Life Live Ourselves Short

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