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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

St. Jerome

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
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
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Animal Eat Home Sin
No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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Creation Force God Heart Human Love Mindset
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
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Civilization Man Suffering
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
Love knows nothing of order.
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Love One Liner Order
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
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
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
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
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Busy Devil Yourself
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
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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