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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

St. Jerome

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
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Affection Love Money Price
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
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
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
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Deep Ourselves Scars Teaching
Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Practice Talk Yourself
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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Death Expense Himself Man Mom
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Civilization Man Suffering
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Humanity Move Power True
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
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

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

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