Honest speech does not seek secret places.
ST. JEROMEEven while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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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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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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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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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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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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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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