Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
ST. JEROMELet 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Haste is of the Devil.
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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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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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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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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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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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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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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
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