No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
ST. JEROMENo one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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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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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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