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

St. Jerome

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.
ST. JEROME

Happiness Learning Love Tongue
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROME

Affection Love Money Price
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
ST. JEROME

Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
ST. JEROME

Hard Impression Mindset White
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
ST. JEROME

Bond Difficult Friendship
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.
ST. JEROME

Beginning Offering Ourselves Seek
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.
ST. JEROME

Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
ST. JEROME

Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
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.
ST. JEROME

Fall Heaven Maintain Marriage Religious Sex Sin
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
ST. JEROME

Knowledge Live Love Meditation Scripture Yourself
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
ST. JEROME

Deep Mistake Origin Water
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
ST. JEROME

Equality Man Woman
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
ST. JEROME

Greatness Poison
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
ST. JEROME

Himself Religious Soul Teaching
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
ST. JEROME

Civilization Man Suffering
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
ST. JEROME

Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin

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