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

St. Jerome

If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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Bad Goodness Touch Woman
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Food Herself Hide Money Poor Store
We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Honesty Meaning Music Need Passion
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Call Earth Heaven Learning
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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Care Listening Oneself Talk
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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Hard Impression Mindset White
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
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
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Deep God Prayer Reading Spiritual Talk
Love knows nothing of order.
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Love One Liner Order
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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Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Affection Love Money Price
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Deep Easy Fast Talk
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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One Liner Tired Walk
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Civilization Man Suffering
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Animal Eat Home Sin
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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Compare Evil Goodness Marriage Oneself Talk Virgin
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
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Ignorance Worst Yourself
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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Angel Born Care God Greatness Ideas Moments Ourselves Soul
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
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
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin

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