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

St. Jerome

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Affection Love Money Price
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Ignorance Worst Yourself
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
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Friendship Reality
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
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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Bad Book Hands Protection Thinking 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
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Equality Man Woman
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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Entrepreneur Failure Inspirational
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
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
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Man Religious Scripture
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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Drink Enough Fear Reach Scripture
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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Beginning Dignity Heaven Human Moments Person Race Soul Value
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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Doubt Himself
Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Practice Talk Yourself
The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Deep Ourselves Scars Teaching
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Call Earth Heaven Learning
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
To read without writing is to sleep.
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One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Change Death Deep Forever Human Ourselves

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