Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
ST. JEROMEThank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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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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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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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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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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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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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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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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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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