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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.

St. Jerome

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.
ST. JEROME

Book Daughter God Heart Life Yourself
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Food Herself Hide Money Poor Store
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Action Beginning Inspirational Motivational Yourself
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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Care Listening Oneself Talk
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
ST. JEROME

Greatness Poison
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
ST. JEROME

Happiness Learning Love Tongue
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
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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Hard Impression Mindset White
There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Big Life Live Ourselves Short
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
ST. JEROME

Death Expense Himself Man Mom
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
ST. JEROME

Act Action Talk Word

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