Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
ST. JEROMEMarriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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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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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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