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.
ST. JEROMEEvery day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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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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To read without writing is to sleep.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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