To read without writing is to sleep.
ST. JEROMEAvoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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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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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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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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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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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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Haste is of the Devil.
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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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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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